Curriculum
The curriculum is organized into a basic 4 year training period that will prepare the resident for the practice of pathology. The Pathology Department and Residency Training Program serve Shands Hospital, Alachua General Hospital and the Malcom Randall Veterans Administration Medical Center (MRVAMC) located across the street from the University of Florida Health Science Center. Rotations in Forensic Pathology are taken either at the Medical Examiners Office in Jacksonville, FL or Gainesville, FL. Residents are supervised directly by the faculty with the assistance of senior residents and fellows. The first and second years introduce the resident to Clinical Pathology through laboratory experiences complemented by didactic lecture series. The third and fourth years of training permit the resident to assume increasing degrees of responsibility for Clinical and Surgical Pathology services. A total of 30 months of training in Anatomic Pathology (32 four week rotations) and 18 months in Clinical Pathology (20 four week rotations) are required in the basic 48 month training period (52 four week rotations). Rotations in neuropathology, forensic pathology, ultrastructural pathology, cytopathology and renal pathology are required. During their basic four years of training, each resident will perform a minimum of 50 autopsies, will sign out more than 2000 surgical pathology specimens, examine more than 1500 cytology specimens, and will perform more than 200 operating room consultations (frozen sections) all under the supervision of the faculty.