The course will offer an overview of the cultural background and specific features required for a pathologist and for a anatomical pathology Technician. In particular skills of the training course are: specimens in the histological lab (management and preparation phase); histological and cytological diagnosis; the anatomy-pathological report: quality controls in the anatomical pathology laboratory; fine needle aspiration biopsy application, immunohistochemistry, molecular biology and electron microscopy; pathological overview of organ diseases: cardiovascular system (ischemic heart disease and atherosclerosis), respiratory system (pneumonias and tumours), gastrointestinal system (gastritis and ulcer, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, hepatitis, gastrointestinal cancers),urinary system (glomerulonephritis, kidney and bladder cancers); Endocrine system (thyroid and adrenal pathology), hemolympho-poietic system (leukaemia and lymphomas), nervous system (vascular, infectious and neoplastic pathologies); skin and soft tissue.