Clinical Fellowships
William B. Hawkins Post-Sophomore Fellowship:
The Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine offers year-out fellowship positions each year to medical students at the University
of Rochester School of Medicine. This fellowship is taken between their second
or third year of medical school. Since the first year-out fellowship took place in July 1829, this opportunity affords medical
students an opportunity to consolidate their basic science knowledge
and gain clinical experience in a real-world setting.
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Post-Graduate ACGME Accredited
Fellowships:
Our Department has two well-established ACGME-accredited fellowship training programs.
The Stanley F. Patton Fellowship Cytopathology is directed by Ellen Giampoli, M.D. This one-year fellowship offers advanced training in diagnostic cytopathology, including application of ancillary techniques such as immunocytochemistry, flow cytometry, molecular diagnostics and electron microscopy to cytologic specimens. Considerable emphasis is placed on correlations between cytopathologic and surgical pathologic diagnoses. The Cytopathology Laboratory examines approximately 72,000 gynecologic specimens and nearly 7,000 non-gynecologic specimens per year, including approximately 3,900 fine needle aspirations biopsies. Pathologists perform superficial FNAs. The fellow also participates in interdepartmental conferences and in teaching residents and medical students.
Our Hematology in Pathology Fellowship program was established in 2007 under the direction of W. Richard Burack, M.D., Ph.D. and offers training in all aspects of diagnostic hematopathology. First and foremost, the program will train hematopathologists who are competent for independent practice. In addition, the program strives to give trainees the intellectual tools and habits that they need to stay abreast of this quickly evolving field throughout their lifetime, and to be the individuals who shape the field through their own scholarship. Doctor Burack received notification in early October of this year that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education awarded this fellowship a full four-year accreditation cycle.
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Post-Graduate Department
Fellowships:
A one-year non-accredited department fellowship in Genitourinary Pathology was established four years ago and is divided into three primary activities: 1) clinically oriented work which includes supervised sign out of genitourinary case material and presentation at clinical conferences; 2) clinical/pathologic research and/or more basic bench research; 3) teaching of residents and medical students. The University of Rochester Medical Center is a regional referral center with a strong Urology department. The Department of Pathology accessions over 50,000 surgical cases a year with a significant number of complex and unusual genitourinary specimens.
The Urology and Pathology departments have a wide range of clinical and basic research activities with particular strengths in prostate and ladder cancer research. Many of the projects are collaborative between the two departments including the investigation of neuroendocrine differentiation in androgen independent prostate cancer. Individuals interested in applying to these programs must have completed a four-year accredited AP/CP Pathology Residency program and be Board eligible/certified.
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Individuals interested in applying to any of these programs must have completed a four-year accredited AP/CP Pathology Residency program and be Board eligible/certified. For additional information on fellowship opportunities send an email to betsy_mcdonald@urmc.rochester.edu or contact the Office for Graduate Medical Education in Pathology at 585-273-4580.
