Graduate Curriculum Committee Course Proposal Form

Graduate Curriculum Committee

Course Proposal Form for

Courses Numbered 5000 and Higher

Note: Before completing this form, please carefully read the accompanying instructions.

1. Course Prefix and Number: 2. Date:

3. Requested Action (check only one box):

New Course
x / Revision of Active Course
Revision & Unbanking of a Banked Course
Renumbering of an Existing Course from
from / # / to / #

4. Justification (assessment or accreditation based) for new course or course revision or course renumbering:

Faculty and completing students have reviewed the certificate program curriculum and course content. Due to scheduling difficulties, students in the Pathology Assistant certificate program presently take an anatomy course with PT students. This course focuses on neuromuscular anatomy of extremities, not on anatomy that these students need to master in order to be competent pathology assistants or pursue careers in other health care areas, including medicine, nursing, or physician assistant school.

5. Course description exactly as it should appear in the next catalog:

PATH 6843 Clinical Practicum in Pathology Assistant Studies IV. (2). P: PATH 6842. Supervised prosection of basic, intermediate and highly complex surgical and autopsy specimens, dictation, specimen photography, and clinical anatomy.

6. If this is a course revision, briefly describe the requested change:

1. Include clinical anatomy content in course.
2. Delete one required text, which students have not found useful, and add one required text for clinical anatomy content.

7. Graduate Catalog Page Number from current Graduate catalog:

239


Course Credit:

Lecture Hours / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / s.h.
Lab / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / s.h.
Studio / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / s.h.
Practicum / 20 / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / 2 / s.h.
Internship / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / s.h.
Other (e.g., independent study) Please explain.
Total Credit Hours / s.h.
2

9. Anticipated annual student enrollment:

10. Affected Degrees or Academic Programs:

Degree(s)/Course(s) / Current
Catalog Page / Changes in Degree Hours
Pathology Assistant Certificate Program / p. 238 / none

11. Overlapping or Duplication with Affected Units or Programs:

x / Not Applicable
Notification & response from affected units is attached

12. Approval by the Council for Teacher Education (required for courses affecting teacher education programs):

x / Not Applicable
Applicable and CTE has given their approval.

13.  Statements of Support:

a. Staff

x / Current staff is adequate
Additional Staff is needed (describe needs in the box below):


b. Facilities

x / Current facilities are adequate
Additional Facilities are needed (describe needs in the box below):

c. Library

x / Initial library resources are adequate
Initial resources are needed (in the box below, give a brief explanation and an estimate for the cost of acquisition of required initial resources):

d. Computer resources

x / Unit computer resources are adequate
Additional unit computer resources are needed (in the box below, give a brief explanation and an estimate for the cost of acquisition):
ITCS Resources are not needed
The following ITCS resources are needed (put a check beside each need):
Mainframe computer system
Statistical services
Network connections
Computer lab for students
Approval from the Director of ITCS attached

14.  Course information: see Instructions for Completing the Graduate Curriculum Committee Course Proposal Form for more detail

a.  TEXTBOOK(S): author(s), name, publication date, publisher, and city/state/country

Surgical Pathology Dissection: An Illustrated Guide, by William H Westra (ed.) Springer Verlag, 2nd edition, May 2003

Handbook of Autopsy Practice, by Jurgen Ludwig (ed). Humana Press, 3rd edition, July 2002

Clinically Oriented Anatomy, by Keith Moore and Arthur F. Dalley, 5th edition, May 2005

b.  Course objectives student –centered behavioral objectives for the course –

Students have attained competence in handling basic and intermediate and have been introduced to high complexity specimens. Students now master prosection of high complexity specimens through supervised activity. Students achieve increasing levels of autonomy, and will be responsible for specimens of increasing complexity when compared to PATH 6842 as follows:

Students will:

-in surgical pathology for basic, intermediate and high complexity specimens:

-describe all specimens

-dissect all specimens

-describe gross pathologic abnormalities of all specimens

-identify areas to submit for microscopic examination

-submit sections of appropriate size and orientation for microscopic examination

-process basic and intermediate complexity specimens with minimal supervision

-photograph interesting specimens

-participate in departmental educational conferences

-in autopsy pathology for all cases:

-perform:

- external examination

- evisceration and en bloc dissection

- dissection of organs and organ blocks

-describe gross pathologic abnormalities

-identify areas to submit for microscopic examination

-submit sections of appropriate size and orientation for microscopic examination

-photograph interesting specimens and maintain in a database

-participate in departmental educational conferences

-in clinical anatomy:

-master clinical anatomy of the central nervous system

b. A course content outline

I. Specific specimen techniques in surgical pathology

A. pelvic exenteration

B. radical vulvectomy

C. cystectomy

D. radical necphrectomy

E. prostatectomy

F. enucleation

G. Complex excisions for malignancies containing bone and soft tissue

II. Special considerations related to pediatric tumors

III. Molecular techniques

IV. Electron microscopy

V. Special considerations in autopsy pathology

A. congenital heart disease

B. skeletal system

C. autopsy microbiology

D. autopsy chemistry

VI. Coding

VII. Clinical Anatomy

A. CNS vascular supply

B. the ventricular system

C. brain surface anatomy

D. coronal and saggital section anatomy

D. white matter tracts

E. midbrain

F. medulla

G. spinal cord

d.  A list of course assignments and weighing of each assignment and the grading/evaluation system for determining a grade.

Students will make a presentation and take a practical examination at the conclusion of the practicum which will assess and equally weigh technical skills and fund of knowledge in surgical pathology, autopsy pathology, and clinical anatomy. Students who demonstrate satisfactory skills and knowledge as demonstrated by performance on the presentation, practical examination, and faculty evaluations will be graded as “completed”.

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