Pathology is a bridging science connecting the basic sciences to clinical sciences having a role to play from bench to bedside: both in research and application. As William Osler the famous Canadian wrote “As is our Pathology, so is our Practice”. The subject of Pathology is taught in 2nd year of MBBS course to understand and correlate the causes of various diseases and how they lead to derangement of the physiology leading to diseases. Introduction to the Department: Department of Pathology is a fully fledged department, with faculty having 5 Professors, 1 Associate Professor, 9 Assistant Professors, 9 Tutors.

The Department is involved in undergraduate teaching and patient care providing services in hematology, clinical pathology, histopathology, Immunohistochemistry, cytopathology and blood transfusion. The department draws the teaching schedule, which is based on CBME guidelines as directed by NMC.

The schedule for the students involves small group learning, didactic lectures, horizontal and vertical integrated teaching, tutorials, seminars, self directed learning, AETCOM, taking care that most of the activities are encouraging active participation by the students.

To be recognized for excellence in education, patient care and research through collaborations with the clinical and scientific programmes of various departments.

The Department of Pathology is committed to serve:
I. Education: Providing exemplary educational resources today and anticipating educational needs of the tomorrow. > Provide the highest quality education, training and research experience for medical students. > Create and support educational programs for pathologists and clinicians regionally, nationally, and internationally.

II. Patients: Providing excellent, innovative & cost effective diagnostic services for optimal patient outcome and health. > This support will be enhanced through centralization and consolidation of specialized laboratory services, which will provide evaluation and diagnosis in a timely and efficient fashion.

III. Research: To provide effective partnership with the health care providers and lead programmatic research at our institute as well as in partnership with the other institutes, research programs

IV. Society: > Actively applying tools of science and pathology in support of public health and ongoing expansion of medical knowledge.

V. Faculty:
> Continuously enhancing our departmental culture of diversity, respect and professional growth.
The students are expected to integrate their knowledge and skills as follows:
(a) Knowledge
The student should be able to identify the etiology, pathogenesis, morphological changes structural basis for clinical symptom and signs, relevant investigations and course of illnesss of the diseases by achieving, excellent scientific knowledge in pathology.
(b) Skills
At the end of the course, the student shall be able to:
1) Describe the rationale and principles of technical procedures of the diagnostic laboratory tests and interpretation of the results.
2) Perform the simple bed-side tests on blood, urine and other biological fluid samples
(c) Integration
At the end of training he/she shall be able to integrate the causes of disease and relationship of different etiological factors (social, economic and environmental) contribute to the natural history of diseases most prevalent in India.
Infrastructure:
DEMONSTRATION ROOMS:
Department has 2 demonstration rooms with well equipped audio-visual aids - Computer systems with LCD projectors, OHP readers, black and white boards which can accommodate 75 students and 25 students at a time respectively. There is an additional demonstration room in the student laboratory with a 20 seating capacity.

Histopathology
Cytopathology
Hematology
IHC Section
Departmental Library: Has collection of more than 151 books catering to both undergraduate course and reference books. The library is updated with latest editions of books on regular basis. Museum:
The pathology museum has required number of specimens and relevant notes.