Forensic Pathology: what degree do i need?

Thread Starter Forensic Pathology: what degree do i need? Follow 5 hours ago 5h ago Quote: Originally Posted by Democracy Histopathology is the branch of pathology which looks at tissues - both at a macroscopic and microscopic level to identify disease processes e.g. cancer, inflammation, scarring, etc in order to help arrive at a diagnosis. A lot of histopathology is based on molecular biology and genetics nowadays, as well as more traditional tissue staining and microscopy. Histopathologists don't usually see patients directly, but they do provide advice to the doctors looking after the patient. There may be contact with other professionals too including coroners, the police, law courts etc. There are several different branches of pathology - the samples you've mentioned wouldn't typically go to a histopathology lab though. The RCPath link I sent you has lots of case studies and "a day i...
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