Author/Authors :
Kapp, Meghan E. Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA , Lusco, Mark A. Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA , Shaver, Aaron C. Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Abstract :
The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040
Keywords :
pathology compentencies , disease mechanisms , immunological mechanisms , immune dysfunction , immunodeficiencies , common variable immunodeficiency , acute phase proteins , amyloidosis
