Section outline

  • Clinical pathology is one of the two major divisions of pathology, the other being anatomical pathology.

    In veterinary medicine, clinical pathology comprises:
    − Haematology
    − Clinical biochemistry (a.k.a. clinical chemistry)
    − Cytopathology

    Clinical biochemistry is taught to undergraduate veterinary students (Level 4).

    Aims :

    At the end of this course, students will:

    - Be able to describe techniques for appropriate collection and preservation of blood samples for clinical biochemistry analysis
    - Be familiar with the analytes that are commonly measured in clinical biochemistry

    Facilitator : Pie Ntampaka