Master in Clinical Pathology (MS CP)

Overview

The Masters in Clinical Pathology program is defined as a 2-year period of organized educational experience designed to develop basic competencies in pathology that prepare qualified physicians for certification to enter the practice of clinical pathology as a beginner in the specialty in UAE.

The fundamental goal of the Clinical Pathology Masters program is to provide the training and guidance that allow the students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to approach patient care through the use of laboratory service, investigation, and data interpretation.

The program has been integrated to provide all clinical pathology elements that a beginner level pathologist practitioner requires in the areas of: communication skills and information technology; medical microscopy; microbiology; immunology and immunogenetics; molecular diagnostics including clinical cytogenetics; hematology and transfusion medicine. Courses in biostatistics, research methodology and ethics will enable the students to design research protocols for testing their hypotheses through an investigatory and analytical thinking approach. The didactic courses of all elements of the training will be concentrated during PGY1 to optimize use of faculty time and help students to lay strong theoretical foundations of clinical pathology. Integrated community-based practice of clinical laboratory medicine with additional elements of informatics, cost management and systems based practices are important elements of the educational program during the hospital-based rotations in PGY2. The last semester will be devoted to research work in any one subspecialty leading to submission of a thesis.