Educational Case: Pneumoconiosis

Julie-Ann Nguyen; Darren Salmi

doi:10.1177/23742895211013530

Educational Case: Pneumoconiosis

Acad Pathol. 2021 May 11:8:23742895211013530. doi: 10.1177/23742895211013530. eCollection 2021 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Julie-Ann Nguyen¹, Darren Salmi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 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/10.1177/2374289517715040.¹.

Keywords: cell injury; environmental mechanism; obstructive diseases of the lung; occupational exposure; organ system pathology; pathology competencies; pneumoconiosis; respiratory system.