I am always wondering the job market of Pathology. Anybody knows about the age distribution of currently practicing pathologist?
meaningless for path as many can continue leeching off younger junior staff well into their 70s. Path is so different than many other fields that the age-out they predicted when they gave an excuse to drastically increase the number of training slots wont occur. There is only one profession, and not just medical mind you, where the number one most likely cause of discontinuation of working is DEATH and that is path. Meaning, a majority of prac. paths practice (in some form) literally until the moment of seeing the Reaper (Insert Mony Python's Meaning of Life skit).
The only rule to retirement in pathology is that your age at retirement is directly proportional to how obnoxious you are to your residents and colleagues.
partly that, partly because the field is so overtrained that you can continously hire employee junior pathologists and turn them over indefinitely. There is also the aspect that pathology is a exclusive contract speciality, meaning you need a contract with the hospital to even get on staff at most places, who controls that? the old people. I would invoke the famous Gray Dawn South Park episode.
Average age of practicing pathologists is apparently 50 or so. Agree with above that it is essentially meaningless. The argument that there are too many pathologists is a debatable one. I don't really have any evidence either way, nor have I seen any evidence other than having people tell me both.
