Pathology Residency

Residents begin by learning the basic principles of surgical and clinical pathology. All residents, no matter what their level, are under senior staff supervision and receive immediate feedback on their work. In addition, the performance of each resident is reviewed at least every six months, using defined and established criteria. The evaluation process is designed to meet the areas of competency required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Areas of strength and weakness are emphasized to apprise the residents of their performance.

Some advantages of our program include:

• Well-organized rotations and electives
• A wide variety of interesting cases
• Large numbers of frozen sections
• Excellent one-on-one staff to resident teaching
• Opportunities for medical student teaching
• Subspecialty expertise among the staff
• Excellent subspecialty experiences in required and elective rotations, especially in forensic pathology, hematopathology, cytopathology, FNA, molecular genetic pathology, gastroenterology, kidney, GU, skin, liver, breast and Gyn
• Opportunities to participate in productive research programs
• A pleasant, low-key collegial atmosphere that promotes learning

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Procedure numbers:

• Surgical pathology: approximately 100,000
• Pap smears: approximately 44,000
• Fine needle aspirations (FNA): approximately 4,900
• Non-gynecologic cytology samples: approximately 4,800
• Bone marrow biopsy: approximately 1,200
• Flow cytometry: approximately 3,400
• Apheresis procedures: approximately 450
• Antibody reports: approximately 2,000
• Red cell transfusions: approximately 12,000