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Current residents,
I am just trying to get a feel for how many programs have pathology assistants or histotechs helping out in the gross room. From what I understand, most residencies have some sort of system set up to help with grossing, but I have also heard of some residencies in which the residencies do all of the grossing, even the "dump and pours".
My opinion is that there is way too much to learn in a short 4 year pathology residency to be spending a lot of time twisting off bottle tops and dumping formalin through tea bags. Obviously, there are some things to be learned from evaluating the small biopsies, so residents should have some exposure to this, but programs that scut out residents as "cheap labor" to work as bottle openers should be avoided.
I am just trying to get a feel for how many programs have pathology assistants or histotechs helping out in the gross room. From what I understand, most residencies have some sort of system set up to help with grossing, but I have also heard of some residencies in which the residencies do all of the grossing, even the "dump and pours".
My opinion is that there is way too much to learn in a short 4 year pathology residency to be spending a lot of time twisting off bottle tops and dumping formalin through tea bags. Obviously, there are some things to be learned from evaluating the small biopsies, so residents should have some exposure to this, but programs that scut out residents as "cheap labor" to work as bottle openers should be avoided.