Depth in training in academic pathology including teaching and research.
Excellent training in academic pathology, including research, results when teaching becomes the prime function of the scholars in an academic department. Teaching of postgraduates requires research and practice and furthermore requires excellence in these fields. A program designed to teach the postgraduates orientates the research and practice to this end rather than making these ends in themselves. A major aim of pathology is to explain at the cell level the mechanism of interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic factors resulting in the abnormality of cell function in disease. The traditional core training in tissue diagnosis develops the interest and ability to analyze the cell and its intracellular activities. To realize the relation of structure and function as the ultimate aim of pathology an intensive study of some of the collateral fields of cell chemistry, physiology, immunology and genetics must become a major part of the organized program.