anyone out there practicing cyto without boards?? have been offered a deal i don't really want to refuse reading cases half a day a week. i think i had a pretty good grasp of it all when i was a resident and with a bit of a self induced crash course was thinking i might just go for it..
I know people that are signing out cyto and heme without boards.
Depends on your confidence and who will back you if you F-up.
with heme you have flow, ihc, etc to back you up....this can be helpful
cyto can be a little more challenging....tissue block can help if available.
what type of cyto... all paps... FNA's.. what type of FNA's?
there are very good diagnostic pathologists that are not cyto boarded and amazing at signing out....
there are lots of boarded cytopathologists that are not very confident and do not give clinicians any more information than they had before the FNA or whatever... you know atypical this and atypical that...
Most of this will be based on what you will be signing out...
If you have any backup...
Your level of confidence...
How much the clinicians respect the path people in your group...
I thought you were a strict AP/DP dude... what gives?
