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Few clerkship/rotation supervisors have a decent working knowledge of pathology, only what they need/want/expect from pathology -- while their impressions are useful to understand, it's not going to land you a residency spot or make you a young gun in pathology by any stretch. Use those experiences to round yourself out and see/do things you otherwise never will, and whatever application they have to pathology will come along. Don't look back and regret you never did X, Y, or Z when you had a chance -- I certainly can't think of anyone who looks back and goes man, those extra surg rotations totally made my life, so glad I didn't sleep for four months for that. Step I is by far the most important "high yield" thing to focus on for getting a decent residency, for better or worse, though not really for becoming a young gun, which is really, really difficult to do in a pre-residency setting. But for those who just can't stop dreaming of pathology the previous posts still hold, if colored by the way the question was asked.
I nor anyone else in residency programs I talked to at any length gave much of a flying fart what rotations an applicant did nor what their "grades" or other numbers were beyond Step I and to a lesser extent Step II, -except- that they needed to have some kind of experience in a pathology department, unless their non-path experiences included something cool like did a winter in Antarctica. (Get it? Cool...?)
