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UPMC Magee fellows?
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WTH...the fellowship has a name? Oh okay
BTW, that sounds like a horrible fellowship. Breast/Gyn should always be folded into a regular surg path fellow experience, if you want a job that is. 😉
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Hold it, what?! Dude I dont think that's how this internetz postings thing work.
I think the WHOLE POINT is that you post stuff on 'da internetz' and people logon and post responses, some expected and others not.
But I will break it down for you because you are new and have all of 21 posts to your name: if some idiot is stupid enough to do a fellowship in purely gyn path (the HORROR!) at the University of Pittsburgh of all places, slotted somewhere in the range of Flint, Michigan as undesirable places you never want to live, WHY DO WE CARE?
Im the sure the Magee whatever fellow has enough shame to deal with, why do we need to post the name here?
This is almost in the range of:
1.) who stunk up the john next to the Au Bon Pain in Brigham last Thursday?
2.) which knucklehead forgot to turn on the process at Stanford on Friday and 100 blocks of bx's are now coming out late?
or perhaps the most egregious 3.) who are the Stanford "IPOX" fellows for 2014-15? hahahaha
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Interestingly enough, I think I might know one of them (is there more than one?) . . .
The slot(s) is probably at least partially funded by an endowment or something that tacks on the name.
Ok, Pittsburgh may be rust belt, but they are the "Monte Carlo" of the region (relatively speaking) when you compare it to places like Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo. And don't even compare it to Flint... ever seen "Roger & Me"
We had a few people in residency who would forget to turn on the processor about once a year. It was always a nuisance for the rest of us, because our program director would then give us a lecture the next morning about how it affected the department
I remember people thought that a fellowship in this was "the next big thing" Do those even still exist???
Agreed. Detroit is #1 on Forbes list of the 10 most dangerous cities in the U.S. and Flint is even worse (24 violent crimes per 1,000 residents vs. Detroit's 21/1,000 - Pittsburgh is at 8/1,000).
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlj45jggj/1-detroit/
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mi/flint/crime/
Ah the Monte Carlo of the Rustbelt you say. Then I will visit.
No idea if there are still Ipox fellowships anywhere but they should all go away...Ipox fellowships are right up there with Cardiovascular Pathology fellows, Medical Informatics fellows (?!) and "Genetics" fellows in terms of a total waste of 1 year of your life.
No idea if there are still Ipox fellowships anywhere but they should all go away...Ipox fellowships are right up there with Cardiovascular Pathology fellows, Medical Informatics fellows (?!) and "Genetics" fellows in terms of a total waste of 1 year of your life.
Medical informatics fellowship has been a waste of time in the past, but now it's a boardable subspecialty. Might continue to be a waste of time, but might not I think.
We had a few people in residency who would forget to turn on the processor about once a year. It was always a nuisance for the rest of us, because our program director would then give us a lecture the next morning about how it affected the department
Having residents turn on tissue processors sounds like an ACGME violation. IT is not educational. The surgery residents don't have to turn the rooms over in between cases. The radiology residents don't have to go transprort the patient.
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Pittsburgh is actually a pretty awesome city. Great food, lots of parks, good sports, arts, etc. Its made quite a turn around since the steel mill days. Now ranks pretty high among national city ratings. I think Forbes and National Geographic had it high on some of the 'best places' lists in the last year two. Definitely NOT Flint, MI.
Sweet skyline, too...
Sweet skyline, too...
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So is labeling two extra blocks because you have to submit more sections, but are you not gonna do it because it's not educational? When you are a resident grossing at 5:15pm or later which is not that uncommon at busier places and the histotechs and PA's are off, guess who starts the processor...? Pathology residents may not be used to the idea of scutwork, but pushing a button to start a machine isn't really comparable to wheeling patients around the hospital or turning over operating rooms.
Pittsburgh has improved a ton over the last 20 years or so.
And if I'm not mistaken "Magee" is the hospital name, not an endowed fellowship. So it's not the Magee endowed fellowship it's the fellowship at Magee hospital. Combining breast and gyn is pretty common, seems like a good use of a year to me instead of doing just one of them. Unless you want to be a pure academic.
But overall I would suggest we not post the actual names of people in fellowship, unless they approve it themselves.
And if I'm not mistaken "Magee" is the hospital name, not an endowed fellowship. So it's not the Magee endowed fellowship it's the fellowship at Magee hospital. Combining breast and gyn is pretty common, seems like a good use of a year to me instead of doing just one of them. Unless you want to be a pure academic.
But overall I would suggest we not post the actual names of people in fellowship, unless they approve it themselves.
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I agree having to label a couple cassettes is not that big of a deal. But having it be the residents responsibility to load the processor because all the lab employees have gone home is bs. Techs or or other help in the gross room should load processors and start them. Who cleans and restocks the gross stations when you are done?
They should reorganize the schedule and have one tech there in the gross room who stays 6 or 630.
A processors can be started automatically on a timer.
The processor did start automatically, but if one of us was grossing late in the day, we would have to put the additional blocks in and hit the restart button.
The techs did restock and clean the grossing room. And I agree it would be ideal to have at least one of them stay until 6pm or whenever the resident is done grossing. But, if you're a lab manager/chair of pathology, you're not going to pay for the extra hours for a tech to stick around only to label a few blocks, and load the processor. It's easier to make the pathology resident do the scutwork as they're not even close to reaching the 80 hr/week limit.
