Academic Pathology

Academic Pathology

Opportunities for Academic Pathology

As American health care undergoes great change, academic pathology is uniquely positioned to establish pathologists as key to the new health-care environment. Pathologists are at the forefront of major innovations in health care and are specialists who interact with all other medical specialists and essentially the entire range of health-care services. Academic pathologists benefit from being s...

Judging academic pathology chairpersons.

In their article, “Chairpersons of Pathology in the United States: Benchmarks for Academic Publications and Professional Credentials,” Wick and Stoler1 focus on issues that are both provocative and controversial. Prompted by their concern for the falling rate of recruitment of US medical school graduates into pathology residency training programs, Wick and Stoler conducted an objective study to...

Academic Pathology: A New Journal.

With this opening editorial, the Association of Pathology Chairs (APC) is launching a new journal called Academic Pathology. The APC is a nonprofit society that serves as the voice of academic departments of pathology in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The APC exists to provide leadership and advocacy for the dynamic discipline of pathology and to enable academic departments to meet...

Academic Mentorship Builds a Pathology Community

Since academic mentorship focuses on developing and supporting the next generation of pathologists as well as the existing faculty, it plays a vital role in creating a successful academic pathology department whose faculty deliver quality teaching, research, and clinical care. The central feature is the mentor-mentee relationship which is built on mutual respect, transparency, and a genuine int...