We offer the following options for Medical Students who wish to rotate through our department in their Clinical Clerk years of Medical School

Anatomical Pathology in a Hospital Setting

Students will have the opportunity to establish clinical-pathological correlation by participating in the surgical and autopsy pathology sections of the department.

The emphasis will be on the cellular “Basis of Pathology”. The student will be expected and encouraged to participate actively in the preparation and review of surgical pathology and autopsy cases under the supervision of a pathologist, with the aim of obtaining a better understanding of pathological basis of disease to allow a rational approach to diagnosis in clinical practice.

The student will also have the opportunity to attend and participate in teaching rounds in progress at that time in the Department of Pathology. 

TYPE OF ELECTIVE: Clerkship

DURATION: 2 -4 weeks

NUMBER OF STUDENTS ACCEPTED: Maximum of 2 students during any one block. (Note: No electives will be scheduled at the Foothills Medical Centre during the first 4 weeks of July)

PREREQUISITES: Familiarity with the use of a microscope and knowledge of the basic mechanisms of disease.

On the first day of this elective, the student should report to the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 7th Floor, McCaig Tower, FMC Campus.

CONTACT: Cassandra Saubak

Department of Pathology, FMC Campus, McCaig Tower 7th Floor

E-mail: cassandra.saubak@aplabs.ca

Telephone: (587) 774-7807

Renal Transplant Pathology

Students will be exposed to the tissue diagnostic and especially clinicopathologic aspects of renal pathology, i.e., light microscopy, immunologic and electron microscopy of renal biopsies, and will combine these findings with basic disease mechanisms and clinical correlates. The pathology of both the native and transplanted kidney will be studied.

TYPE OF ELECTIVE: Clerkship

DURATION: Minimum 2 weeks

NUMBER OF STUDENTS ACCEPTED: Maximum 1 student per 2-week block. (Note: No electives will be scheduled at the Foothills Medical Centre during the first 4 weeks of July)

PREREQUISITES: Familiarity with the use of a microscope and knowledge of the basic mechanisms of disease.

PRECEPTOR:

Dr. H. Benediktsson

Telephone: (403) 944-1981    E-mail: benedikt@ucalgary.ca

On the first day of this elective, the student should report to the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 7th Floor, McCaig Tower, FMC Campus.

CONTACT: Cassandra Saubak

Department of Pathology, FMC Campus, McCaig Tower, 7th Floor

E-mail: cassandra.saubak@aplabs.ca     Telephone: (587) 774-7807