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Do clinical fellows rotate through pathology? Like gastroenterologists rotation through GI pathology and heme/onc rotating through hemepath? What are the expectations for these guys?
At my institution, GI, uro, heme-onc, gyn, nephro and neurosx (I must be forgetting some) have to do 1-3 months of path. There's derm of course but the expectations are different for them.
Expectations for those fellows are quite low. They have to go through cases to have an idea and to understand the subtleties of a path report. The focus is on path-clinical correlations. They usually don't gross, don't order IHC by themselves, rarely dictate etc.
Maybe we should make the GI fellows gross colons.
Make the GYN docs gross the uterus.
Urologists gross prostates.
Put them to work. Help us with our workload
Lol workload? I have yet to meet a pathologist who has too much of a workload (one that can collect the fruits of his labor anyway).
Teach them how to gross and you will lose all our business.
Better idea = learn how to scope as a path resident.
You know, where I'm from they call pathology "path-holiday". God your field is screwy.
Do clinical fellows rotate through pathology? Like gastroenterologists rotation through GI pathology and heme/onc rotating through hemepath? What are the expectations for these guys?