Training of residents in the discipline of laboratory medicine is confounded by the
diversity of the subdisciplines of clinical pathology each with specific knowledge
sets, and the career goals of the residents who are focused on different aspects of
clinical pathology. What guides this training is not the detailed knowledge sets or
the specific technologies per se, but a focus on the principles that undergird all
of laboratory medicine. Thus, the goal of clinical pathology training is to develop
a clinical consultant who can apply laboratory-derived, population-based clinical
data and laboratory-based therapeutics, along with a firm knowledge of the underlying
biotechnology from which these are derived, to the benefit of individual patients.
Furthermore, this pathologist must be steeped in the skills required for lifelong
learning and adaptation.
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