Pathology is a large and diverse field that allows a doctor to participate in multiple areas of the field or focus their scope to a specific area. It is a specialty that focuses on diagnostic work involving tissues, blood and body effluents.
The Master of Pathology programme offered by UM covers comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge to equip graduates with the necessary proficiency to become clinicians who are involved in diagnostic laboratory work and for the field of Forensic Pathology, the involvement with investigations into causes of death and medico legal work.
Benefits
The course provides guided hands-on training with involved apprenticeship experience in handling laboratory practice in the hospital setting. The course also provides candidates exposure to leading a medical pathology diagnostic service; training other medical allied health professionals and medical undergraduates and to basic research methodology.
Career Opportunity
Graduates are trained and can serve as:
Diagnostic laboratory clinicians (hematology, chemical pathology, anatomical pathology, medical microbiology).
Forensic Pathologists (forensic pathology).
Academic pathologists.
Research pathologists.
