Helping medical students to learn pathology more effectively.

Context: Teaching methods in pathology for undergraduate medical students are not effective.

Aims: To document measures that can be adopted by individual teachers that can excite the interest, participation of the students and help them learn pathology in a clinical reasoning context.

Settings And Design: Medical students in a large international medical school with class sizes of 700-900 were taught the pathology course in a period of sixteen weeks for two cohorts of students each year over a period of twenty years.