For AP/CP trainees, the program is structured to meet ABP requirements of 18 months of training in both Anatomic and Clinical Pathology with 12 months that may be customized dependent upon the trainees goals and needs as long as the electives meet both ABP and UTHSCSA requirements. The current "routine" model is as follows: Residents in the first two years of training do twelve months of AP and twelve months of CP. This is usually accomplished by thirty-four weeks of AP (12 weeks of autopsy and 22 weeks of surgical pathology) and eighteen weeks CP (6 weeks hematopathology, 6 weeks transfusion medicine, & 6 weeks of clinical chemistry) in the first year with 40 weeks of CP (6 weeks hematopathology, 6 weeks transfusion medicine, 12 weeks of microbiology/ immunology & 6 weeks of clinical chemistry) with an additional 12 weeks of surgical pathology in the second year but again is customizeable. All rotation lengths are six weeks minimum and staggered to allow CP rotations immediately following autopsy rotations.
In the third and fourth years mandatory rotations include three months of cytopathology, four weeks of pediatric pathology, and six weeks of forensic pathology (3 weeks count toward AP-autopsy and 3 weeks toward CP-toxicology). The full 18 months of Clinical pathology is fulfilled with further advanced clinical pathology training (including 12 weeks of laboratory medicine at the VAMC),and a mandatory six weeks of flow cytometry, cytogenetics, and molecular diagnostics during the third year. In anatomic or clinical pathology additional two to six weeks long electives in renal, oral, dermatopathology, neuropathology, electron microscopy, laboratory information systems, biostatistics, coagulation, and immunopathology are available as well as advanced electives in other topics covered by core rotations. All electives must meet residency director approval with written specific goals and objectives and faculty supervision.
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