Report on an Advance in Pathology

Project: Report on an Advance in Pathology The purpose of this assignment is to learn to update regarding pathophysiologic issues. This project has two aspects: doing a literature search and writing an essay about the results. For the training and evaluation to be effective, each student needs to work independently. Step 1 The first step is to search the recent professional literature on biomedical research for an advance in knowledge regarding the etiology, pathophysiology, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of a pathology that interests you. The pathology itself may or may not be described in your textbook. The advance(s), however, should be new – initially published only in the last three years and not yet included in textbooks. You may have to try several topics before finding one with significant, recent discoveries. Step 2 Contact your instructor and discuss your topic with her well in advance of the due date. Students have sometimes selected broad topics which then makes this assignment more challenging than is intended. Step 3 Finally, write an essay describing the disease process you have selected. Include etiology, signs and symptoms as well as current treatments. Summarize the new information on your topic and explain why it is clinically significant. In your essay you may include information from articles which you do not submit in hard copy, but your submitted articles should be the ones that are most important to the points you are making. (This is why you should make sure you can get the hard copies before you write the essay.) Write this essay in your own words; avoid using quotations, but remember to reference ideas using APA format.