The aim of our educational programs is to prepare the resident to make wise decisions throughout his/her career. In order to reach rational conclusions and to make valid choices, factual, accurate information must be obtained by use of a wide variety of techniques, some of which may lie outside those traditionally employed by pathologists. Facts are not the end of education, but application of facts is essential to the realization of its ultimate aims. An education should include not only the acquisition of accurate information but also the capability of integrating such facts and knowledge so they may be utilized in the solution of problems.

One essential to our program is the involvement of the resident trainee in the teaching activities, so that he/she may contribute to the educational experience of medical students and other students in the department. As students of abnormal human biology, we should always be dissatisfied with our efforts, free to criticize and accept criticism, forever striving to test the truth of what appears to be known, and always attempting to enlarge existing knowledge. Among us there is no room for the complacent, the arrogant, the staunch upholder of tradition, and/or the stout defender of the status quo. If pathology is to play a significant role in the general armamentarium of our medical schools and universities, it must maintain the same standards of scholarship and the same rigorous quality of research as other basic sciences. We hope to engender these in you during your training.

Since we are a department of academic pathology, our primary objectives are teaching, research, and service. We regard each as an equally important objective which is interdependent with the others. We believe that residency training should be considered as graduate education of the highest quality. The organization of the Department of Pathology is designed to:

1.  Emphasize the unity and interdependence of the various functions of a pathology department, including

     teaching, research and clinical practice.

2.  Expose the residents to concepts about human disease which are taught by all the various senior faculty.

3.  Provide a continuous integrated educational experience in human pathology throughtout the training period.

4.  Give residents an opportunity to participate in one of the ongoing research programs being piloted by

     various senior faculty.

5.  Provide every resident a teaching experience in pathology.

 

 

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