Residency Training
Duties and Responsibilities
Residents are employees of UC Health University Hospital, and as such must comply with JCAHO, CAP and CLIA, 88 requirements inherent to hospital/laboratory practice and ACGME and RRC guidelines governing training. Consequently, residents must be knowledgeable of the contents of the Resident’s Policy and Procedure Manual and the Residency Training Program manuals for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology.
On-Call
All on call responsibilities follow the ACGME duty hour/ duty periods regulations. At home call is the only type of call pathology residents take. PGY 1 residents do not take at home call. Pathology residents from UC rotating at CCHMC also take on-call responsibilities. Call of one-week duration is required while rotating at Hoxworth.
At the end of their training the residents will have gained a tremendous amount of experience in dealing with many of the routine and challenging clinical pathology questions from clinicians as well as a breadth of experience in frozen section consultations. Residents are always assigned with a faculty member while on call.
Attendance
Attendance at morning conference is required. Unless scheduled otherwise, morning conference begins at 8 a.m. Inasmuch as the first hour of the day is “protected,” residents are expected to be at that session from its start—i.e., 8 a.m. to its finish.
Scholarly Activity
The Pathology Residency Program requires each of its trainees to have completed by the end of training four verifiable scholarly activities (i.e., ones performed during training in this program). Such scholarly activities include posters for presentation at a state or national meeting, authorship/co-authorship of a manuscript in a peer-reviewed medical/science journal, authorship/co-authorship of a pathology-related chapter in a book and/or some other faculty-approved/overseen activity. (PowerPoint presentations made as a requirement of a service rotation or as a requirement of an institutional meeting, e.g., tumor board or morning conference, do not constitute a scholarly activity of the sort intended here.)
In order to verify the status of required scholarly activities, the resident will be asked to present at the annual review a formal list of those activities with supporting documentation.