The Department of Pathology participates in the education of medical students throughout the four-year curriculum. In the Phase I of the LEARN curriculum, the department delivers a course called Basic Mechanisms of Disease. Dr. Anupama Sharma and Dr. Gong Feng are course co-directors. Pathology department faculty members teach various components of the course. The course comprises 94 hours of the first year of the LEARN curriculum and utilizes multiple teaching modalities including lectures, CPCs, and laboratory sessions.
Systems-based Pathology is integrated within integrated Pathophysiology courses that run throughout the remainder of Phase I of the LEARN curriculum. Pathology department faculty participate in the teaching of neuropathology; cardiovascular, pulmonary, and renal pathology; reproductive and endocrine pathology; and gastrointestinal pathology.
Fourth-year medical students may take electives in anatomic and clinical pathology. An Advanced Clinical Experience in pathology is also offered to fourth-year medical students.
Over the years, several Pathology faculty members have been recognized for their teaching accomplishments in the School of Medicine ranging from Excellence in Teaching awards by the graduating class of medical students to the Aescalapius Award, the school's highest teaching award. In addition, Pathology faculty members serve in leadership roles involving the management of the curriculum in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
