Course Information

The Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School (HMS) will present a five-day postgraduate course, CURRENT CONCEPTS IN SURGICAL PATHOLOGY, 32nd Annual Course under the direction of Drs. Eugene J. Mark, Judith A. Ferry, Andrew E. Rosenberg and Robert H. Young, with forty one faculty members from the Massachusetts General Hospital and one guest faculty.

Disease areas to be discussed will include: bladder, bone, bone marrow, brain, breast, cervix, gastrointestinal tract, infectious disease, kidney, liver, lung, lymph nodes, ovary, pancreas,placenta, pleura, prostate, salivary gland, skin, soft tissue, thyroid, and uterus. The application of immunochemistry and electron microscopy and molecular pathology to diagnostic pathology will be discussed where appropriate. Instruction will be primarily by lecture.

Small group slide review sessions with a faculty member will be available. These sessions are optional. They take place during the mid-day break and in the morning before the first lecture and in the late afternoon after the last lecture. When registering, participants may request one such study session at no additional charge. Assignment to these study sessions will be made in order of registration. Special evening seminar sessions will be held Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

These sessions are optional. Space at these sessions is limited. Registrants can list in order of preference and will be assigned to one.

Slides used at the small group study sessions will be available for individual study during the course including evenings. Microscopes will be available for individual study of cases.

Slides will also be available online. A CD-ROM and syllabus including representative material from each lecture will be given to each registrant.

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The objective of this course is to improve the skills of surgical pathologists by focusing on new information and techniques relevant to their practice and emphasizing problems likely to be encountered in a busy practice.