First post!! :D

Looks like a great forum for mudphuds. :thumbup:

Not to be a tool, but isn't this sub-forum redundant with the path forum? ;)

Unless there's anything else someone would like to add...

-X

In answer to your post xanthines, the purpose of this forum was to leave the current forum as more for those who are applying to these MD-PhD Programs and wanting to know more about the initial steps. This new sub-forum was created in response to a large need by the current MD-PhD students to have a resource available in moving on to the next steps in their careers which was to identify and comment on residency programs who were more amenable to md-phds and their needs / wants in a residency program.

Agreed freddy.

I'm an MSTP student currently applying to Pathology programs now. As I go interview at some of these places, I should have more to say from the pathology front...and after I match, I'll especially be able to say what I want and will be happy to share what I know.


Hey AndyMilonakis:

What are the top tier Pathology residency programs? Where can I find the rankings?

huseyin

Given that, if I were to venture a guess and conjure up a list (albeit an incomplete one) of top tier schools, the list would consist of Brigham and Women's hospital, Hopkins, WashU, Stanford, UCSF, MGH, Michigan, Chicago, UPenn, etc.

Heh, this list of schools is also known as the usual suspects.

I find it funny sometimes when people ask for the top schools in X. It seems that more often than not you can simply cut and paste Andy's list. These schools pretty much run the table in excellence across nearly all specialities.

Yes I see a need for this forum. I posted the following over in the path forum and did not get much feedback (except for Andy).

Looking for some of your thoughts on the ?research tract? during path residency. I have been notified by several programs, which have already offered me an interview, that they also have a research tract/postdoctoral training option. Often this involves additional interviews. Basically, these programs offer PGY funding for one or more years of post doc sometime during the residency.

I will have completed an M.D./Ph.D. program and am on tract to pursue a research-based career as an experimental pathologist. Despite this goal I am uncertain about signing up for these programs. Since my goals involve fellowship training (which often has protected research time at major academic centers), it seems that these research tract residencies may be overkill for me ? or am I missing something? I would very much appreciate insight from someone involved with one of these programs or planning on pursuing this tract.

Also in regard to top ranking path programs ... I have found this especially difficult to sort out. One example of a program not commonly listed that is arguably a leader in the field is Minnesota ... birthplace of CP, ranked 10th in department NIH funding, home of the first BMT, stem cell research institute, Rosai and other AP luminaries have been on the faculty, Dean is a pathologist and president of the American Board of Pathology, many lab medicine chairs had training at Minnesota at some point in their careers, fully funded research lab (with technicians) for resident use, funded research tract option, they claim to get over 900 applicants on their website (which is alot by path standards and must include the IMG group).

Not that I am trying to be a Minnesota cheerleader, it is just that it is one program for which I have dug a little deeper in my evaluation, I could do the same for University of Washington which is also not often listed, and I have a hard time stating that Stanford etc is in a separate tier.

In the end many of us over in path will probably post our rank list and maybe there will be some consensus among the mudphuds in our group, but I doubt it.