Pathology Residency Curriculum
The BMC AP/CP training program is 48 months in duration.
Note: Clinical Pathology and Anatomic Pathology-only tracks are a total of 36 months with training in AP or CP rotations only.
Rotations vary by year, but will include all of the following during residency training.
- Surgical Pathology
- Advanced Surgical Pathology
- Frozen Section
- Autopsy
- Dermatopathology
- Forensic
- Cytology
- Neuropathology/Special Topics
- Renal/EM
- Immunohistochemistry
- Lab Management
- Transfusion Medicine Service
- Hematology/Hematopathology
- Coag/Flow
- Chemistry
- Microbiology
- Molecular/Cytogenetics
Pathology Curriculum
Call Schedule
1st year residents do not take call.
They are assigned to work every other Saturday for grossing and autopsy coverage.
2nd – 4th year residents take call from home.
They cover AP and CP issues for a week at a time from Friday evening until the next Friday morning. Multiple attendings are on-call and the residents are encouraged to start working up a call issue, and should ask for help from their attendings if needed.
- Common call issues on CP include critical values, massive transfusion protocol, suspected transfusion reactions, emergent plasma apheresis or red cell exchange.
- AP call consists mainly of frozen sections.
Residents are not required to stay in-house for call, however, beepers must be kept on.
PGY 1: Do not take call
PGY 2: 7 weeks of call
PGY 3: 4 weeks of call
PGY 4: 3 weeks of call
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