{"id":732,"date":"2011-11-15T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=732"},"modified":"2011-11-15T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T02:06:11","slug":"a-peek-at-the-pathology-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2011\/11\/15\/a-peek-at-the-pathology-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"A peek at the pathology profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/pathology201111.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-733\" title=\"pathology201111\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/pathology201111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Students interested in a career in pathology,\u00a0the precise study and diagnosis of disease, got a up-close look at the profession from a UW-Stevens Point alumnus.<\/p>\n<p>Reed Brooks, MS, PA (ASCP), &#8217;03, visited campus on Tuesday, Nov. 15 to give a presentation about this exciting career. Brooks is an instructor and director of research from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Pathologists\u2019 Assistant Department.<\/p>\n<p>A pathologists\u2019 assistant (PA) is a highly trained allied health professional who provides various services under the direction and supervision of a pathologist. PAs are academically and practically trained to provide accurate and timely processing of a variety of laboratory specimens, including the majority of pathological specimens. A pathologists\u2019 sssistant is qualified to do all the work leading up to (but not including) diagnosis\u2013including tissue banking, gross examination of surgical pathology specimens, and complex surgical resections and autopsies.<\/p>\n<p>Interested students can complete undergraduate coursework in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/shcp\/Pages\/default.aspx\">UWSP School of Health Care Professions<\/a>, then continue on to grad school for a required master&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students interested in a career in pathology,\u00a0the precise study and diagnosis of disease, got a up-close look at the profession from a UW-Stevens Point alumnus. Reed Brooks, MS, PA (ASCP), &#8217;03, visited campus on Tuesday, Nov. 15 to give a presentation about this exciting career. Brooks is an instructor and director of research from Rosalind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,14],"tags":[245,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}