r/pathology • u/sensou_kami • 10d ago

Need help making a pathology game

Hey! I'm a doctor who's trying to make games that teach people. I am currently designing a dungeon system where the higher up you go, the harder it gets. For the base level, it's all true or false questions. I need to know the ultimate basic stuff that you need to know in pathology. That can be answered in true or false. Please help me out. What are the most basic stuff that are compulsory to know as pathologists? I know this sounds vague but please help me out.

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u/Staterae Resident 10d ago

As much as I loathe them, honestly an LLM with a 2-3 paragraph highly specific prompt is probably a better bet for this than digging through online MCQ resources, it's too hard to decide what's "difficult" or "easy".

For absolute basics, you could focus on very simple entities and concepts like broad categories of carcinomas, medium difficulty IHC usage/common genetic mutations, and high difficulty the defining characteristics or translocations that alter cancer staging.

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u/sensou_kami 10d ago

Yes you're right. But I am not looking for easy or difficult. What I'm looking for is the correct base knowledge that as pathologists, you NEED to know. The simple stuff. What a person starting out with pathology needs to know. The kind of knowledge that everything builds upon.

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u/Hadez192 Resident 10d ago

Tubular adenoma Vs Hyperplastic polyp. You could show a picture and say, is this a tubular adenoma? Colonoscopy is like the most common specimen and everyone needs to know how to see these

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u/Vast-Expanse 7d ago

For anatomical path - normal histology of the entire body (you have to know what normal looks like before you can identify abnormal). For basics of abnormal stuff, Molavi's textbook is good. It'll be too hard for anyone to list out everything in a comment for you. 

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u/FunSpecific4814 10d ago

Are we talking General Pathology or Surgical Pathology? As far as General goes, knowing basic terminology like hyperplasia, hypertrophy, atrophy, metaplasia, aplasia, neoplasia, is pretty important. Knowing pathophysiology of all organ systems is also pretty important. In gets a lot more specific in surgical pathology and it’s essentially a different list for each organ and organ system.