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This resource is written with the intention to teach you what to do in various situations you are expected to encounter during your first years of pathology training, at least until the point that you are usually fairly confident about what disease or condition you have at hand, because then you know what words to use to look it up in the vast literature out there. At that point, the fastest way to get more information is generally by Googling the disease or condition name, followed by ''pathology'' or ''pathology outlines''. If you just want to see more micrographs of the disease or condition, the fastest way is generally to Google the condition and then clicking the Images tab. Specific searches for specific purposes include: | This resource is written with the intention to teach you what to do in various situations you are expected to encounter during your first years of pathology training, at least until the point that you are usually fairly confident about what disease or condition you have at hand, because then you know what words to use to look it up in the vast literature out there. At that point, the fastest way to get more information is generally by Googling the disease or condition name, followed by ''pathology'' or ''pathology outlines''. If you just want to see more micrographs of the disease or condition, the fastest way is generally to Google the condition and then clicking the Images tab. Specific searches for specific purposes include: | ||
*Adding '''cancer.net staging''' in Google searches for definitions of cancer stages, for example Googling ''prostate cancer cancer.net staging''. The first search will then generally be the one from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. | *Adding '''cancer.net staging''' in Google searches for definitions of cancer stages, for example Googling ''prostate cancer cancer.net staging''. The first search will then generally be the one from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. | ||
*Considering a subscription for '''ImmunoQuery''' | *Considering a subscription for '''ImmunoQuery''' (or equivalent database if you find one) in order to generate the most pertinent immunohistochemistry stains when you have two or more differential diagnoses for a case at hand. After all, it is pointless to just know a few positive and negative immunostains for each disease and condition, because what you need in reality is to figure out what immunostains to order so that you can pinpoint one diagnosis among your differentials. To master that, you will need to memorize a vast amount of immunostains and at what percentages they are positive for a vast amount of diseases and conditions, or you can have an online service do that work for you. | ||
'''Ask a colleague''' at least whenever your own memory or a resource search is not enough, and there is a significant risk that you will do something irreversible that will negatively affect a patient. | '''Ask a colleague''' at least whenever your own memory or a resource search is not enough, and there is a significant risk that you will do something irreversible that will negatively affect a patient. | ||