MABIO5200 Surgical Pathology Dissection Course description

The paper is judged as pass/fail by the course responsible and the co-responsible

Students should have at least one year’s experience from a pathology lab. They should also have access to performing dissection in a pathology department.

Admission Requirements: The course is primarily offered to PhD candidates in Social Sciences. If places are available it will be open to PhD candidates in exernal PhD programmes.

• External applicants use Søknadsweb. (Search for OsloMet, then PhD courses, Faculty of Social Sciences.
• Internal candidates use Studentweb and sign up themselves, or contact the PhD administration.

Required attachments for the application:

• External applicants must submit a summary of about one A4 page with information about their own PhD project and why this topic is considered relevant for their own project. The summary is uploaded to the Søknadsweb.
• Internal candidates send the summary to the PhD administration.

The maximum number of course participants is 15.

After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can discuss laws and regulations that apply to the handling, documentation and banking of human biological specimen
• can assess the macroscopic and microscopic appearance of normal tissue as well as common pathological changes in the relevant tissues and organs
• can describe the anatomy, pathology and terminology for selected surgical specimen

Skills

The student

• can observe applicable safety regulations and satisfy hygiene requirements during work involving equipment, chemicals and biological specimen
• can identify macroscopic changes in the relevant specimen in an independent manner
• can perform dissection of pathological changes in tissue in a structured and quality assured manner

General competence

The student

• can work on the basis of knowledge of dissection in their own department
• can critically assess, discuss and convey procedures for dissection and contribute to the establishment of new procedures
• can critically assess the processing of human biological specimen for special analysis, biobanking and research

The course is largely web-based and includes digital lectures, digital group assignments and self-study. Self-study includes some training in dissection. In addition, there will be a compulsory three-day session at OsloMet that includes demonstration of dissection in a pathology department. The group assignments include oral presentations where students receive feedback on their work from fellow students and the lecturer.

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

• minimum attendance of 80% at scheduled digital lectures
• minimum attendance of 80% at campus-based session
• individual presentation of report from independently performed dissection, time frame: 15-20 min.

Individual oral exam, up to 30 min.

The exam can be taken in English or a Scandinavian language.

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Grade scale A-F.

All answers are assessed by two examiners. An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

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