Academic Curriculum

The focus of the Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Program is on clinical training in pediatric pathology with opportunity to complete small research projects.

The fellow is responsible for direct supervision of pathology resident trainees that may be rotating through the services in which the fellow is also rotating.

Two thousand (2000) surgical and cytology cases, fifty (50) intra-operative consultations (frozen sections) and forty (40) autopsies are to be completed by the fellow.

Didactic components include:

• Journal Club (monthly)

• Anatomical Pathology Conference (weekly)

• NICU Mortality Conference (monthly)

• Autopsy Pathology Conference (monthly)

• PICU and Mortality Conference (monthly)

• Interdisciplinary Cancer Care Conference (three times monthly)

• Hematopath Conference (monthly)

• Renal Path Conference (twice a month)

• Derm Path Conference (twice a month)

• Brain Cutting Conference (weekly or PRN)

• Muscle Board Conference (monthly)

• Gastroenterology Conference (once a month)

• Liver Transplant conference (once a month)