Hello guys, I'm now a second year resident in pathology. During my brief training I've seen 2 or 4 times my colleagues receiving cases of nephrectomy and colectomy from a same patient. In the colon it's usually an adenocarcinoma, in the kidney a different type of cancer each time. Yesterday I received the same thing, and I started wondering if it was a thing in other places ?

Also I wanted to know, from your valuable experience, is this topic of association interesting enough to make a '' case sefies '' about it ? If yes, what are the things that can be '' relevant '' and '' interesting '' to focus on exactly?

Thanks in advance!

Dear r/pathology,
Do you ink your thyroidectomies before grossing?
If yes, why? Sorry if the question seems ignorant, I understand some labs do and some don't....
Would appreciate your feedback. Thank you!

Do you have a colleague who signs both equally (let's say one week of each service)? Will it be possible to do it in a private practice setting and avoid surg path coverage whatsoever?

Do you prefer one over the other depending on different anatomic sites or different scenarios? If so, why?

What are the major differences in terms of salary and difficulty and case volume?

First off, I thought this sub was mostly just US pathology but I recently saw a post asking about pathology in Australia which got a few answers. So, I thought I'd try my luck.

I should be graduating with an MMed in ChemPath next year from a South African university (i.e., a fully fledged / board certified Chemical Pathologist in South Africa). I would like to move over to Oz (ideally Brissie) ASAP. The RCPA website is quite helpful and detailed but I'd like to know if anyone has actually done this in, say, the last 10 years or so?

I plan on visiting next year around August.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I am applying to Hempath Fellowship programs and have applied to a few already. I just wanted to know if anyone could suggest any good programs. My preference is big cities at east cost mainly Thanks

Hello I'm a non us img who fully matched in 2024 but couldn't start residency because my country would not give the statement of need (needed for J1 visa) the program i matched with does not sponsor h1b visa. I have been devastated by this event, I decided to start pathology residency in my homecountry to boost my cv then apply for 2026, but again I could not start path residency in my country because I got ill the day of residency exam(we have to take an exam to access specialties) I've been really distressed by all the above & honestly don't know what to do or what to think anymore Should I do observerships? Or can i work in a lab? What's the best job to show sincere interest in pathology

I am going through a very depressing time any advice would be useful Thank you!

Will eventually the manual diff count be obsolete and we can only focus on morphology?

I got couple of IVs on October 18 and since then I got nothing. Are the programs done sending IVs? or just because I am an IMG and still there is time for me to wait?

Hello Pathologists! I’m a PGY5 looking at a career in pathology in Australia. I am struggling to decide whether I want to do AP or General. I love histo and the lab, but I love the idea of the broad areas of study offered by histo. One minor concern is that AP may not be varied enough? I do love looking at slides and diagnostics, but how much of your time is spent doing other things? Is it 8 hours of microscope every day? I really like the idea of getting into teaching and research, and being part of MDTs, and all that kind of work. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Any kind of ‘average day’ description of general or anatomical pathology would be amazing. Thanks very much in advance 😊👍

Seeking Guidance on Pathology Research Opportunities Post-USMLE Steps.I recently completed my USMLE step 1 and will be writing my USMLE step 2 in coming months.I am an IMG from Bangladesh

Hello everyone,

I recently completed my USMLE Step 1 and am now looking to get involved in pathology research to strengthen my application for residency. I’m particularly interested in gaining experience with research methodologies, data analysis, and hopefully contributing to some publications.

Does anyone have recommendations on where to start? Should I reach out to academic labs, or are there specific programs or institutions known for accepting medical students in a research role? Also, any tips on contacting potential mentors or structuring my inquiry emails would be super helpful!

I’d really appreciate any advice or personal experiences, especially if you’ve taken a similar path in pathology. Thanks in advance!

I just received an email from ABPath. They say I get the result in December. Fyi, I took the forensic pathology board exam this year. Any ideas?

PGY1. At a "cush" program regarding grossing. We're on a 3 day cycle, and the service is not reliant on residents. This means we rarely if ever do biopsies. We have a checklist of things to gross as we progress.

I thought I was doing fine until a rotating senior resident from another program said this is like being on vacation, and that I won't be prepared for the rigors of a good fellowship, particularly at their "big-name" program.

My seniors said that the focus is on seeing more slides and minimizing non-educational grossing. But some were uncertain since obv they've only ever been at this program. I recall from auditions that most other programs have residents gross much more than I do.

Should I bring this up to my PD as a valid concern, or not get psyched out?

Basically the title - which transfusion medicine fellowship programs have the best PBM training?

Currently a PGY2 interested in transfusion, and I've heard a lot about where to go if you're interested in apheresis, cell therapy, sickle cell disease, etc. - but I'm most interested in patient blood management and want to go somewhere with perioperative blood management, hands-on management of product inventory, product triaging, and so on. Cedars-Sinai seems to be well-known for blood bank training, but I don't know if that is exactly what I'm looking for.

I appreciate any insights y'all might have :)

Edit: Conversely, if there are any programs to avoid because they don't do any transfusion management, I'd love to hear about those too!

What types of jobs would allow a 6-month split between working in the U.S. and internationally each year as a pathologist ? Are there specific roles or fields (like academic, consulting, telepathology, locums) that offer this kind of flexibility?

Curious if anyone has seen or experienced this kind of setup. Thanks!

I am 25 years old after graduating from medical school I started my residency in a pathology department with a laboratory which has a very bad ventilation. (I remember somedays our eyes were tearing up) We were only using 2 layers of medical masks like we used in pandemic. I’ve worked there for 1 and a half month and spent afternoons in the laboratory then resigned. Now I am very anxious about health related results from my experience. Do you have any recommendation? Thanks for your time

I’m in a country in Southeast Asia and our AP curriculum is not structured in a way that you only do certain specialties/organ systems per month. We do general surg path every other month hence we get a variety of cases. I find this difficult come exam time since I feel like I lack knowledge in certain organ systems that we don’t get a lot of cases of (e.g. CV, Neuro). Plus I’m finding it hard to carve out study time since surg path months are really busy (we do all the grossing). Are flashcards or question banks really helpful? Any tips would be appreciated!

Posting this for the sake of all of the current Pathology applicants, because no matter how hard you prepare for interviews, some people will throw you absolute curveballs that will catch you off guard. Current/ past residents, what were some questions that threw you off?

Here’s mine:

If you could play rock paper scissors right now, which would you choose and why? (Like is this a weird psychological evaluation, I said rock 🪨 bc I rock of course lol)

Will you miss patient care? (My answer: pathology is patient care…)

Are you a team player? (PD didn’t read my app, was literally skimming it as we talked).

What would you do if your co-resident didn’t show up to work repeatedly and wasn’t reliable?

If you were given $1000 a day for a whole week, what would you do with it? (Mayo

Hi!

Has anyone had an interview with Henry?

How did it go?

After having obtained my RCPA fellowship in AP in Australia, can I work in Hong Kong and if so, anyone with insight as to how difficult it is to get a consultant job in HK?