Resident lectures series at your program

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I think at most programs, there is a longitudinal series of conferences given by attendings geared towards path residents, designed to cover both AP and CP core curriculum in preparation for boards. I don't know what these are called at different places so I'm going to call them the "resident lectures series".

1) Does your "resident lectures series" take place over 2, 3 or 4 years?
2) How many times a week do you have these "core curriculum"-type conferences?
3) What time do they start?

 

[yaah]

What do you mean? Residents giving lectures? Or attendings giving lectures to residents? Residents don't really lecture here except a presentation every time we are on micro or chem, and briefer case presentations.

 

[deschutes]

Amended for clarity!

 

[yaah]

OK, well we have a tuesday morning (8am) CP grand rounds lecture series by the faculty. Generally they do a month or two in one area (chemistry) then move onto another. I am not sure if it really cycles, as in doing the same exact topics every two years, I think it is more just new topics every year. AP is on tuesday evening (5pm) and there is basically a 2 year cycle, with some variation. So the soft tissue lectures last year were bone and cartilage. This year vascular tumors.

We also have once a month forensics talks geared the same way.

The other conferences:

monday rotates - dermpath slide conference once/month; hemepath slide conf or lecture, pediatric path slide conf/lecture
Wednesday am: AP slide conference, rotates through the attendings
thurs am: rotates through cytology talks/slide conf (twice per month), neuropath slide conf, autopsy conf
Fri am: we present cases (CP).

 

[b&ierstiefel]

1) Does your "resident lectures series" take place over 2, 3 or 4 years?
No. We have basic teaching conferences during the first few months of every year to go over the basics of grossing, histopath of organ systems which are very helpful.

2) How many times a week do you have these "core curriculum"-type conferences?
Several.

3) What time do they start?
Varies.

 

[stormjen]

What do you mean? Residents giving lectures? Or attendings giving lectures to residents? Residents don't really lecture here except a presentation every time we are on micro or chem, and briefer case presentations.

Excuse the language, but are you ****ting me? We have to give multiple lectures, like every month. I must spend 90% of my time preparing for lectures and doing autopsy paperwork, 5% studying for whatever rotation I'm on, then 5% on research and other miscellaneous studying.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Excuse the language, but are you ****ting me? We have to give multiple lectures, like every month. I must spend 90% of my time preparing for lectures and doing autopsy paperwork, 5% studying for whatever rotation I'm on, then 5% on research and other miscellaneous studying.

Really? Wow...here residents don't give that many presentations. I think I give 5 presentations this whole year (in various contexts) and next year, that number jumps to 6 or 7. But multiple lectures in one month??? Wow, I think I'd go crazy.

 

[yaah]

Excuse the language, but are you ****ting me? We have to give multiple lectures, like every month. I must spend 90% of my time preparing for lectures and doing autopsy paperwork, 5% studying for whatever rotation I'm on, then 5% on research and other miscellaneous studying.

No, I am not. When we are on AP months we almost never have to present anything. The only thing we have to do is tumor board. On autopsy, you often have to present a case (15-20 minutes) to medical residents, or perhaps at surgery M&M, or three times a year to the path department.

CP, there are some requirements. Thus, on chem and micro we give a 45 minute seminar per month. And there are journal clubs that we rotate on who is responsible for. Every friday we have three residents give a 15-20 minute case presentation/discussion on a CP issue depending on what rotation they are on. Sometimes it does feel like we are always preparing for some kind of talk, but only really on chem and micro.

 

[Mrbojangles]

1. I believe every year.
2. In the first six months it used to be every day and we would cover bread and butter organ systems in surg path. In the latter six months our conferences has trickled to maybe once or twice a week and most of our lectures are on cytology, bone and soft tissue, or derm. So I'm not sure if that's typical or dependent on the chief resident (the chief resident makes the schedule for the lecture series)
3. 7:30am, but in actuality it's more like 7:40am.

I think at most programs, there is a longitudinal series of conferences given by attendings geared towards path residents, designed to cover both AP and CP core curriculum in preparation for boards. I don't know what these are called at different places so I'm going to call them the "resident lectures series".

1) Does your "resident lectures series" take place over 2, 3 or 4 years?
2) How many times a week do you have these "core curriculum"-type conferences?
3) What time do they start?

 

[deschutes]

How do your programs teach the area called "Special Topics" in the RISE, specifically the Lab Administration part?

 

[sinaility]

At our program, didactic lectures are very formal and organized.
http://www.mssm.edu/path/residency/didactics.shtml

There are so many every day that you can't attend them all.

I like it when you are given rotation objectives to acheive for each subspecialty. http://www.mssm.edu/path/residency/curriculum/goals.shtml

We have to present alot of conferences here: Tumor boards, Grand Rounds, Pulm conference, Surgical path conference, autopsy conference. Its alot of work, but really good for networking. By the time you finish your first year, most of the big shot attendings from all the other departments know who you are. It's great for exposure.

 

[cjw0918]

At my program we asked for some type of organization to the conference and lecture schedule (the topics are all random) and the faculty said, "No, that would be spoon feeding you." Nice. Nevermind the fact that outside faculty gives 95% of our lectures and conferences are almost exclusively given by residents. I have yet to figure out what our faculty really does, because it is obviously not teaching.

 

[LADoc00]

I have to say...back in the day, I gave much due to MGH because they really pimped the residents in these sessions, I mean full on humiliated them. Meanwhile Fletcher is over there on Francis Street coddling his kids like they were in 3rd grade ESL. WashU used to hardcore pimp as well, so bad it was done in closed sessions. I think resident lecture series with military style pimping needs to come back in vogue. Toughen up those little guys a bit.

 

[deschutes]

The answers so far seem to mostly deal with AP. I think AP is easier to teach, be it via lectures or signout pimping.

I'm more interested in how programs teach the fuzzy stuff, i.e. CP and Special Topics.

We've been having some lectures on CLIA'88 and Six Sigma and LEAN. The latter two particularly seem very pie-in-the-sky to me, plus it seems such a gongshow to me to bring in consultants and pay them fistful over fistful of $$$ to tell you what's wrong with your system, when you don't listen to your own staff and techs because they're "always whining".

 

[yaah]

We had those lectures too last year, kind of silly. All about efficiency, and most of the things they suggest are so patently obvious anyway. Really? We should try to batch specimens if we can? Really?