Power Programs

[Samanta]

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I keep seeing the term power programs in path on this site. It seems to be obvious to people what they are. Could you please share with me which programs qualify as power programs, which are not as great but still competitive and which are better to stay away from.

I would really appreciate your help. 😱

 

[LADoc00]

I keep seeing the term power programs in path on this site. It seems to be obvious to people what they are. Could you please share with me which programs qualify as power programs, which are not as great but still competitive and which are better to stay away from.

I would really appreciate your help. 😱

Any place where I am signing out, qualifies as a power program.

Seriously, anyone who uses that the "power program" is a complete ****.

 

[deschutes]

Where is it that you are seeing the phrase "power programs in path" on this site? Can you post a link?

 

[fedor]

Don't he so quick to judge. If the original poster used the term "strong" instead of "power" no one would have thought the question was out of place. Pathology, even more so than the other specialties, receives a lot of interest from IMG's who may not use appropriate terms.

 

[deschutes]

Hey, don't blame me for your wrongs... 🙄

The thought of bad Ingleesh never even crossed my mind. I just wondered if I had missed something. Clarification - it's a beautiful thing.

 

[yaah]

I keep seeing the term power programs in path on this site. It seems to be obvious to people what they are. Could you please share with me which programs qualify as power programs, which are not as great but still competitive and which are better to stay away from.

I would really appreciate your help. 😱

Open up any path textbook, and look at where the authors are at. It is a fairly good correlation.

 

[deschutes]

Yeah, I was considering that surg path fellowship in Milan.... 😉

 

[Pingu]

Yeah, I was considering that surg path fellowship in Milan....

That HAS to be the perfect fellowship for me! Surg Path PLUS some of the greatest shopping in the world. My Italian is limited though!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I don't believe in the concept of "power" path programs. If you go to any program in a tertiary care hospital, you're gonna see a good mix of bread and butter cases as well as the esoteric weird cases. It doesn't matter whether your path department sees 30,000 cases vs. 60,000 cases. Fellows in our department come from a variety of places, and they're well trained. Plus, learning pathology is a cumulative process that is not limited to what your exposure is during residency. Experience pays off, overall.

 

[cytoborg]

It's one of the frustrating things about applying in path - there aren't really rankings and it can be hard to tell a strong vs. not-so-strong program based on a one-day interview experience. You end up hearing a lot of rumors and subjective info, or lack thereof due to people not wanting to alienate their colleagues in a very small field. If you want to know what programs have famous people - then I'm with yaah, open a path textbook and see where the authors come from. But this is not necessarily going to correlate with a good training experience for you at that particular program.