Clinical pathology/Laboratory medicine: The clinical laboratory: organization, purposes and practice. – Physician office laboratories. – Principles of instrumentation. – Clinical laboratory automation. – Interpreting laboratory results. – Informatics, imaging and interoperability. – Laboratory statistics. – Clinical laboratory quality assurance. Clinical chemistry: Evaluation of renal function, water, electrolytes, acid-base balance and blood gases. – Metabolic intermediates, inorganic lons and biochemical markers of bone metabolism. – Carbohydrates. – Lipids and dyslipoproteinemia. – Specific proteins. – Evaluation of liver function and injury. – Clinical enzymology. – Evaluation of endocrine function. – Toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring. Urine and other body fluids: Basic examination of the urine. – Cerebrospinal, synovial, and serous body fluids. – Andrology laboratory and fertility assessment. – Laboratory management of assisted reproductive technology. – Laboratory aspects of gestation management. – Laboratory diagnostic of gastrointestinal and pancreatic disorders. Hematology, coagulation and transfusion medicine: Basic examination of blood. – Hematopoiesis. – Erythrocytic disorders. – Leukocytic disorders. – Blood platelets. – Coagulation, fibrinolysis and hypercoagulation. – Immunohematology. – Transfusion medicine. – Hemapheresis. – Tissue banking and progenitor cells. Immunology and immunopathology: Overview of the immune system and immunologic disorders. – Immunoassays and immunochemistry. – Laboratory evaluation of the cellular immune system. – Laboratory evaluation of immunolglobulin function and humoral immunity. – Complement and kinis: mediators of inflammation. – Cytokines and adhesion molecules. – Human leukocyte antigen: the major histocompatibility complex of man. – The major histocompatibility complex and disease. – Immunodeficiency disorders. – Clinical and laboratory evaluation of system rheumatic diseases. – Vasculitis. – Organ-specific autoimmune diseases. – Allergic diseases. – Diagnosis and management of cancer using serologic tumor markers. – Viral infections. – Chlamydial, rickettsial, and mycoplasmal infections. Medical bacteriology. — In vitro testing of antimicrobial agents. Spirochete infections. – Mycobacteria. – Mycotic diseases.—Medical parasitology-- Molecular pathology of infectious diseases. – Specimen collection and handling for diagnosis of infectious diseases. Molecular pathology: introduction to molecular pathology. — Molecular diagnostics: basic principles and techniques. – Polymerase chain reaction and other amplification technology. – Hybridization array technologies. – Applications of cytogenetics in modern pathology. Establishing a molecular diagnostics laboratory. -- Oncoproteins and early tumor detection. –Molecular techniques in the diagnostic. – Molecular diagnostic of genetic diseases. – Parentage testing: Use DNA polymorphism and other genetic markers.