Clinical Pathology Board Review, 1st Edition

• Understand all of the major subject areas of clinical pathology tested on the Clinical Pathology board exam, including chemistry, hematology, coagulation, microbiology, immunology (including HLA testing), transfusion medicine (including therapeutic apheresis), cytogenetics, and molecular diagnostics.
• Prepare for the boards with help from multiple-choice questions offered in a format that mimics that of the actual test.
• Effectively grasp key concepts with questions that integrate various areas of clinical pathology, as well as questions that bridge concepts in clinical pathology with those in anatomic pathology.
• Understand why an answer is correct or incorrect with help from brief explanations accompanying each.
• Review key concepts in laboratory medicine, correlate them to the associated clinical or laboratory information, and apply them to the diagnosis and management of human disease.
• Designed as a companion to Anatomic Pathology Board Review, 2^nd Edition (ISBN: 9781455711406).

By Steven L. Spitalnik, MD, Professor and Vice-Chairman, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center; Medical Director, Clinical Laboratories, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York; Suzanne Arinsburg, DO, Associate Professor of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine; System Director, Blood Bank and Transfusion, Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System; Director, Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Jeffrey Jhang, MD, MBA, Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health; Director, Clinical Laboratories, Tisch Hospital and Service Chief, Clinical Lab Services, Tisch Hospital, New York, New York