Pathology Subject Guide

Selected Digital Resources

Professional Associations

Selected Books

Please send any comments concerning this page to Sheila Gorman.

Selected Digital Resources in Pathology

Department of Pathology: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
The Department of Pathology oversees virtually all the clinical laboratories at DHMC. The web site provides a laboratory handbook and information about faculty interests, the pathology residency program, the surgical pathology fellowship, research projects, flow cytometry, departmental conferences, teaching programs, and pathology-related online resources.

Digital Library at Dartmouth/Pathology Folder
eResources in pathology (subject guides, encyclopedias/dictionaries, indexes/abstracts, databases, electronic journals, electronic Books, etc.)

Images.MD
Images.MD has over 48,000 medical images from more than 90 collections and 2,000 contributors. Images may be used in lectures, presentations, and other non-commercial uses. Licensed for use by Dartmouth College and DHMC/Lebanon.

The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
An electronic laboratory of text and tutorials demonstrating gross and microscopic pathology.

Lab Tests Online
Information for caregivers and patients includes test descriptions, conditions linked to tests used, and screening guide information for various life stages.

PathWeb
A virtual pathology museum, can be searched by organ or pathological process. Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Health Center's Pathology Department.

Virtual Slidebox
A database of virtual slide, gross, radiological, and other images, developed at the University of Iowa.

Professional Associations

American Association of Blood Banks
Established in 1947, the American Association of Blood Banks is an international association of blood banks, including hospital and community blood centers, transfusion and transplantation services and individuals involved in activities related to transfusion and transplantation medicine. A good site for facts about blood, blood banking, and transfusion-transmitted diseases.

American Board of Pathology
The ABP seeks to improve the quality of training and practice of pathology by continual review of the program requirements of graduate training in conjunction with the Residency Review Committee for Pathology (RRC) and by improving and perfecting the entire certification process.

American Society of Clinical Pathology
The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) is a not-for-profit medical society organized exclusively for educational, scientific, and charitable purposes. The mission of the American Society for Clinical Pathology is to serve as a national resource for the enhancement of the quality of the practice of pathology and laboratory medicine.

American Society of Cytopathology
The American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) is a U.S. based professional society of physicians, cytotechnologists and scientists who are interested in the cytologic method of diagnostic pathology. This organization concerns itself with continuing medical education, public education, research, professional practice issues and standards, ethics and advocacy in behalf of members, patients and providers.

American Society for Investigative Pathology
The American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) is a society of biomedical scientists who investigate mechanisms of disease. Investigative pathology is an integrative discipline that links the presentation of disease in the whole organism to its fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms. ASIP advocates for the practice of investigative pathology and fosters the professional career development and education of its members.

Association for Molecular Pathology
The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) was established to "promote clinical practice, basic research, and education in molecular pathology." The mission of this society is to represent and unify practitioners of molecular pathology.

College of American Pathologists
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is a medical society serving nearly 16,000 physician members and the laboratory community throughout the world. It is the world's largest association composed exclusively of pathologists and is widely considered the leader in providing laboratory quality improvement programs.

Society for Pediatric Pathology
The Society for Pediatric Pathology, founded in 1965, is an educational and scientific organization of physicians and scientists who practice in more than 60 children's hospitals and university hospitals in the United States, Canada and throughout the world. It is the aim of the Society to foster research, education, and practice as they pertain to pediatric pathology, and to provide a forum for discourse among its members.

Selected Books

Essential Pathology / edited by Emanuel Rubin;
with 47 contributors. 3rd ed.
Dana Reserve Permanent Course Reserve
Matthews Fuller RB111 .E856 2001 c.2

General and Systematic Pathology /
edited by J.C.E. Underwood 3rd ed.
Matthews Fuller RB25 .G38 2000

Pathology : A Color Atlas / [edited by] Ivan Damjanov, James Linder.
Matthews Fuller RB33 .P38 2000

Pathology / edited by Emanuel Rubin, John L. Farber. 3rd ed.
Dana Reserve RB111 .P29 1999

Pathology for the Health-Related Professions /
Ivan Damjanov. 2nd ed.
Matthews Fuller RB25 .D26 2000

Robbins Basic Pathology / edited by Vinay Kumar, Ramzi S. Cotran, Stanley L. Robbins 7th ed.
Dana RB111 .K895 2003

Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease / Ramzi S. Cotran, Vinay Kumar, Tucker Collins 6th ed.
Dana Reserve RB111 .R62 1999
Matthews Fuller Ref. RB111 .R62 1999
Dana Ref. RB111 .R62 1999 c.3
Note: Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease is also available online via MDConsult. The Digital Library at Dartmouth/Pathology Folder, listed above, lists other books available in digital format.