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Evolution of the Pathology Residency Curriculum: Preparing for a Positive Future
The required medical knowledge and skill set for the pathologist of 2020 are different than in 2005. Pathology residency training curriculum must accordingly change to fulfill the needs of these ever-changing requirements. In order to make rational curricular adjustments, it is important for us to k...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289516667746 |
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author | Naritoku, Wesley Y. Powell, Suzanne Z. Black-Schaffer, W. Stephen |
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description | The required medical knowledge and skill set for the pathologist of 2020 are different than in 2005. Pathology residency training curriculum must accordingly change to fulfill the needs of these ever-changing requirements. In order to make rational curricular adjustments, it is important for us to know the current trajectory of resident training in pathology—where we have been, what our actual current training curriculum is now—to understand how that might change in anticipation of meeting the needs of a changing patient and provider population and to fit within the evolving future biomedical and socioeconomic health-care setting. In 2013, there were 143 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited pathology residency training programs in the United States, with approximately 2400 residents. There is diversity among residency training programs not only with respect to the number of residents but also in training venue(s). To characterize this diversity among pathology residency training programs, a curriculum survey was conducted of pathology residency program directors in 2013 and compared with a similar survey taken almost 9 years previously in 2005 to identify trends in pathology residency curriculum. Clinical pathology has not changed significantly in the number of rotations over 9 years; however, anatomic pathology has changed dramatically, with an increase in the number of surgical pathology rotations coupled with a decline in stand-alone autopsy rotations. With ever-expanding medical knowledge that the graduating pathology resident must know, it is necessary to (1) reflect upon what are the critical need subjects, (2) identify areas that have become of lesser importance, and then (3) prioritize training accordingly. |
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spelling | pubmed-54978612017-07-06 Evolution of the Pathology Residency Curriculum: Preparing for a Positive Future Naritoku, Wesley Y. Powell, Suzanne Z. Black-Schaffer, W. Stephen Acad Pathol Regular Article The required medical knowledge and skill set for the pathologist of 2020 are different than in 2005. Pathology residency training curriculum must accordingly change to fulfill the needs of these ever-changing requirements. In order to make rational curricular adjustments, it is important for us to know the current trajectory of resident training in pathology—where we have been, what our actual current training curriculum is now—to understand how that might change in anticipation of meeting the needs of a changing patient and provider population and to fit within the evolving future biomedical and socioeconomic health-care setting. In 2013, there were 143 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited pathology residency training programs in the United States, with approximately 2400 residents. There is diversity among residency training programs not only with respect to the number of residents but also in training venue(s). To characterize this diversity among pathology residency training programs, a curriculum survey was conducted of pathology residency program directors in 2013 and compared with a similar survey taken almost 9 years previously in 2005 to identify trends in pathology residency curriculum. Clinical pathology has not changed significantly in the number of rotations over 9 years; however, anatomic pathology has changed dramatically, with an increase in the number of surgical pathology rotations coupled with a decline in stand-alone autopsy rotations. With ever-expanding medical knowledge that the graduating pathology resident must know, it is necessary to (1) reflect upon what are the critical need subjects, (2) identify areas that have become of lesser importance, and then (3) prioritize training accordingly. SAGE Publications 2016-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5497861/ /pubmed/28725779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289516667746 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Regular Article Naritoku, Wesley Y. Powell, Suzanne Z. Black-Schaffer, W. Stephen Evolution of the Pathology Residency Curriculum: Preparing for a Positive Future |
title | Evolution of the Pathology Residency Curriculum: Preparing for a Positive Future |
title_full | Evolution of the Pathology Residency Curriculum: Preparing for a Positive Future |
title_fullStr | Evolution of the Pathology Residency Curriculum: Preparing for a Positive Future |
title_full_unstemmed | Evolution of the Pathology Residency Curriculum: Preparing for a Positive Future |
title_short | Evolution of the Pathology Residency Curriculum: Preparing for a Positive Future |
title_sort | evolution of the pathology residency curriculum: preparing for a positive future |
topic | Regular Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289516667746 |
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