Why Pursue Pathology As A Career In Biomedical Science?
Graduate students and postdocs experience numerous disciplines during their training and often do not formally choose a specialty. As a result, the biomedical scientist has the freedom to change fields, departments, academic environments, and to continue to develop expertise in areas of interest. For example, a biomedical scientist is not required to be in a Pathology department to investigate the pathogenesis of disease. However, Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine provide an important educational and research infrastructure to study mechanisms of disease. In these departments, trainees have opportunities to learn basic, translational and clinical investigations in laboratory medicine and pathology. As mentioned earlier, Pathology departments also have access to patient samples through tissue banks that can be beneficial for establishing translational research studies with clinical applications. The discipline of pathology and/or laboratory medicine has distinct advantage
