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Just found out that the place where I did my surg path fellowship no longer has the vaunted "hot seat" rotation as part of its surgical pathology fellowship:
http://pathinfo.wikia.com/wiki/Washington_University/B-JH/SLCH_Consortium_Program
In addition, attendings now sign out all frozen sections during regular working hours; fellows only sign out after hours/weekend frozens.
This is too bad: my greatest criticism of pathology training is the relatively minimal degree of responsibility residents generally assume during their training. The hot seat and frozen section rotations in the fellowship were the two best features of the fellowship, and more than anything else, made my early years in my practice successful ones. Without them my first year of practice would have been a white-knuckle experience for both myself and my employers.
Have all of the fellowship programs abandoned the hot seat?
http://pathinfo.wikia.com/wiki/Washington_University/B-JH/SLCH_Consortium_Program
In addition, attendings now sign out all frozen sections during regular working hours; fellows only sign out after hours/weekend frozens.
This is too bad: my greatest criticism of pathology training is the relatively minimal degree of responsibility residents generally assume during their training. The hot seat and frozen section rotations in the fellowship were the two best features of the fellowship, and more than anything else, made my early years in my practice successful ones. Without them my first year of practice would have been a white-knuckle experience for both myself and my employers.
Have all of the fellowship programs abandoned the hot seat?