Diploma Courses

Pathology 9586 will provide graduate students an opportunity to develop or advance their research skills.  This will be achieved through learning basic research language, and understanding research ethics and appropriate research design.  In-class discussions will focus on research ethics and integrity, use of statistics to understand research data, and theoretical exploration of experimental models of human diseases. Students will also critically review and evaluate primary literature relevant to their research fields.

Pathology 9587L is a multidisciplinary course exploring advanced concepts in the pathogenesis of human diseases. Students will learn to critically evaluate scientific literature and emerging themes in select topics and present these concepts to peers. Students will emphasize new developments and will give an overall view of general mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis.

There are two main objectives of this course. The first objective is to provide students with an overview of the fundamental principles that underlie select human diseases. This will be accomplished through an in-depth examination of original research articles on the selected topic. The second objective is to provide students with critical thinking skills and the tools for communicating scientific ideas. The course is designed to encourage students to learn how to research, discuss and evaluate current information, and form cogent arguments and opinions about scientific topics. Students may also use this course to round out their education in areas not covered in depth by graduate courses offered by Pathology and Laboratory Medicine or by other graduate programs at Western University.

This course will provide an opportunity for participants to establish or advance their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. The course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Participants will use these theoretical underpinnings to begin to critically review literature relevant to their field or interests and determine how research findings are useful in forming their understanding of their work, social, local and global environment.