Is it possible to do a hemepath fellowship from heme/onc?
Hemepath after heme/onc
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If you are asking whether an academic program will let you come to their place and organize paperwork, look up clinical histories, pre-dictate cases, field phone calls, take call, and teach scope rounds - then yes, they will let you do that after completing 3 years of internal medicine residency and 3 years of heme onc fellowship.
But who on earth would do that?
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Actually, I don't think it is possible. You can look up the requirements for the fellowship from the ABP, or maybe ACGME.
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Actually I think it is possible reading abpath requirements. It seems it takes two years though instead of one.
I once met a neuropathologist who went from neurology to neuropathology.
Then we all know there are a zillion ways to get into blood banking.
I wonder about the new informatics board. I just read it and there are a zillion ways to get into it too http://www.abpath.org/BofISubspecialtyCI.htm
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You don't think a path department would take a boarded internal medicine and boarded heme onc physician as an unaccredited fellow in hemepath? I've seen it happen myself. Also seen it in blood banking too.
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Yeah, it's definitely possible, it just doesn't seem to be very common. It's right there on the ABP website, and I've heard tales of it happening, just no firsthand experience. Basically the same concept applies to several ABP subspecialties -- descriptions all available through the previously posted link.
Doesn't this mean that a heme/onc boarded IM doc can do it in 1 year?
As for my motivation - I love pathology and want to have a Back door into it if I don't like clinical medicine. My interest is in academia, so hemepath only might work.
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I do remember before starting residency checking to see if I could do subspecialty fellowships (like medical genetics) with a pathology board. You can. I know if one CP-only resident who started doing benign hematology in the clinics.
How savvy are oncologists at reading path reports? Do you think they understand the significants of the IHC and flow data in terms of how it led to the diagnosis, or do they probably just read the line diagnosis and whatever clinically relevant molecular findings there are?
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I think some do, some don't. Depends on a lot of factors, from their training to their workload to their willingness to the influence of the pathologist(s) they most commonly work with. As a resident I saw what I thought was a little of each. Most assumed they knew a bit more than they did, but I don't remember any standing out who just didn't want to hear or know anything other than the diagnostic line.. some just wouldn't "ask" about the rest. Surgeons tended to be more...to the point. But oncologists have a different perspective, since what they do sometimes, even often, depends on those details.
