USCAP embracing PHDs?

[scienceguy19]

Got this in my email...

USCAP recently modified membership categories to embrace Ph.D. colleagues working in clinically related fields (particularly molecular pathology) as Regular Members.

So are we going to be competing against PHDs now too for jobs?

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[Granular]

Pathologists in chem and micro already compete with PhDs. These are not good fields to specialize in if you are an MD pathologist, unless you are content to work for PhD compensation or you can demonstrate that being a path-trained MD provides something worth extra money (like billing for protein electrophoresis signout). For CP-oriented MDs, blood bank and heme-path are the fields to pursue, since molecular is also going to the scientists. Haven't yet seen PhDs signing out flow or bone marrows, or issuing blood products.
I guess if you have two fellowships, and one is micro, you could get hired to sign out surg path and your practice could dismiss the micro PhD since a specialty-trained pathologist can cover it. But no way should one of these PhD fields be your only fellowship.