The practical habits you wish you had learned in residency
Congratulations, you’re board-certified! Now what? In the dinosaur era, pathologists were required to fly to Tampa and sit for a recertification exam every 10 years but now maintenance of certification is much less stressful and onerous. For maintenance of certification,
Continue readingMaking sense of MOC – how to stay board-certified as a pathologist
It’s 7:30 am and you’re assessing your workload for the day and the phone rings “We have a frozen.” In my early attending days, frozen sections felt like my worst nightmare. There’s a reason I’m not an emergency medicine physician.
Continue readingReading frozen sections: How I learned to stop dreading them and start having fun
When you arrive in the morning to a huge stack of slide folders, it’s very tempting to want to jump right into reviewing slides to get through them as efficiently as possible. But, efficiency isn’t the only goal or even
Continue readingFrom gross to sign out: a systematic approach to reviewing pathology cases
Your first day as an attending pathologist is the start of a new chapter. Overnight, you’re no longer a trainee and you’re now the one responsible with your name signed on the final report. It is 100% normal for this