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Uni Stuff => Science => Faculties => Biomedicine => Topic started by: abd0051 on December 27, 2013, 09:27:55 pm
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Say, if I wanted to do a career as a pathologist in the future, would a biomedical science degree at rmit lead me to it? Are there any other institutions that offer a biomedical science course that can be a pathway to pathology ? Hope I'm making sense here lol. ☺️
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Do you mean a pathologist or someone who works in a path lab? Because pathology is a medical specialty (unless I'm mistaken) so you'll need to do a medical degree (MBBS, MD, etc.) and then specialise.
http://www.rcpa.edu.au/Pathology-Careers/Becoming-A-Pathologist
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Do you mean a pathologist or someone who works in a path lab? Because pathology is a medical specialty (unless I'm mistaken) so you'll need to do a medical degree (MBBS, MD, etc.) and then specialise.
http://www.rcpa.edu.au/Pathology-Careers/Becoming-A-Pathologist
I read through this course http://www.rmit.edu.au/programs/bp147 but it's getting me confused.
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Btw what's the different a between an actual pathologist and one that works in a path lab .
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Btw what's the different a between an actual pathologist and one that works in a path lab .
Well the actual pathologist is a doctor. They make diagnoses, management of conditions (eg. leukemia) and things like that (I do some path in 2014 as part of Year III, so I don't have a great deal of knowledge about pathology yet!), the guys in the lab (other than the pathologists) work with samples, do the testing and so forth, not really any diagnosis or anything particularly medical.
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Btw what's the different a between an actual pathologist and one that works in a path lab .
A "pathologist" is not simply a science graduate who has majored in Pathology. To be a pathologist, you need to have a degree in Medicine and then complete a specialisation in Pathology as a doctor.
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For year 10 work experience, I worked with the guys in the lab. All they did was to put sample of blood into a machine to make sure it doesn't clot and then later they put the sample into another machine and the machine would do some tests and print out the data sheets. These guys in the lab had some knowledge about the data and they were able to tell me if that's normal or not...I believe these guys could do more than blood test, but thats all they showed to me on the day. These guys didn't have MBBS degree so they could only interpret basic data
When we talk about pathologist, these people do much more. They can look at a sample under a microscope and tell if if the cells are cancerous. These people need a med degree.