The time has come to return to Morgantown and resume my studies in earnest. This break I had planned on studying a couple of hours a day in preparation for the summer pathology course, but as sometimes happens, things don’t go according to plan. In retrospect, I believe that not studying was a blessing in disguise. After all, this could have very well been the last break that I had to be with my family, friends and fiancée for another 2 years. The time I spent neglecting my studies was well spent on reuniting with everyone back home. The only break that we WVU PA students get after this is about a 3 week break between the end of our summer course and the beginning of our fall courses at the beginning of August. From what I understand, clinical rotations in Pittsburgh next year are going to be nonstop.
The next obstacle to overcome will be this upcoming pathology course. I mentioned it earlier in a previous post, but it looks to be very intensive. It’s a single online class of 12 units, 3 hours a day for 4 days a week. The course covers the entire text of “Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease” which is a 849 page tome that medical students also study from. Each day, we’ll be covering a single chapter for a total of 28 chapters. To give you an idea of the topics that we cover (basically everything), I’ll list them out here:
Chapter 1: Cellular Adaptations, Cell Injury and Cell Death
Chapter 2: Inflammation
Chapter 3: Tissue Repair
Chapter 4: Hemodynamic Disorders and Thromboembolic Diseases
Chapter 5: Genetic Disorders
Chapter 6: Diseases of Immunity
Chapter 7: Neoplasia
Chapter 8: Infectious Diseases
Chapter 9: Environmental and Nutritional Pathology
Chapter 10: Diseases of Infancy and Childhood
Chapter 11: Blood Vessels
Chapter 12: The Heart
Chapter 13: Diseases of White Blood Cells
Chapter 14: Red Blood Cell and Bleeding Disorders
Chapter 15: The Lung
Chapter 16: Head and Neck
Chapter 17: The Gastrointestinal Tract
Chapter 18: Liver and Biliary Tract
Chapter 19: The Pancreas
Chapter 20: The Kidney
Chapter 21: Lower Urinary Tract and Male Genital System
Chapter 22: Female Genital Tract
Chapter 23: The Breast
Chapter 24: The Endocrine System
Chapter 25: The Skin
Chapter 26: Bones, Joints and Soft Tumors
Chapter 27: Nervous and Skeletal System
Chapter 28: The Central Nervous System
Chapter 29: The Eye
Exams are every Friday and we also have a mandatory review discussion on Thursdays. Even though it’s just one course, I expect that the time and effort required will strain us once again to the limit.
The summer pathology course lasts from June 6th until July 27th. Although I like studying pathology, there is a part of me that can’t wait for the next short break in August.
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