Whether your background is wildlife rehabilitation, or you work as part of veterinary clinic or academic centre, a basic knowledge of some choice pathology laboratory techniques can greatly enhance your facilities productivity, but more importantly can aid in the health and wellbeing of an animal or group of animals.
As Australian fauna is so unique, diagnostic pathology is considered a specialised field as each species has its own inherent differences when it comes to differential cell types, etc. However, that does not change how the laboratory processes the samples submitted and, if you can master the lab techniques, you can utilise established resources (e.g. texts and publications) to interpret your results.