 Resident
Manual
Resident Opportunities
for Teaching and Research
Since teaching is intrinsic
to the role of a pathologist, residents are guided through multiple levels
of informal and formal teaching. Residents at all levels are expected to
present cases to their colleagues and attending staff at interdepartmental
meetings, as well as present their autopsy findings at the Medical Mortality
Conference. Opportunities are also provided at this time for residents to
teach medical students rotating through the autopsy service and to assist in
the laboratory portion of the first and second year courses. Additional
opportunities are also available for more senior (third and fourth year)
residents, such as co-supervising an interdepartmental conference (such as
the Urologic Pathology Conference or ENT Conference), serving as a
facilitator for the problem based learning sessions for the first and second
year medical school students, and giving Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds.
In addition, residents are encouraged to present the results of their
research investigations in the form of either poster or platform
presentations at local, state, or national meetings.
We strongly encourage residents
to undertake research projects. Elective time for research may be scheduled
prior to the beginning of the academic year, and a formal plan including the
attending staff supervisor, title of project, objectives of project, and method
by which to complete the project must be presented to the program director at a
minimum of two months prior to initiation of the research elective. This will
allow the time to confirm the practicality of the plan, obtain needed equipment
or supplies, and to define a budget if necessary. While many of the projects
can be carried out within the Department of Pathology, residents are also
encouraged to consider research being done by investigators in other departments
within this institution. Pathology Research Initiation Grant funding is
available for approved projects, on a competitive basis.
Residents are encouraged to
attend and participate in discussions of faculty research presented at regularly
scheduled research conferences, journal club, and presentations by invited
speakers. An Anatomic Pathology research seminar is presented each month, and an
Experimental Pathology research seminar is presented each week.
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