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Duties and Functions:
The resident performs and reports autopsies as available. The resident will gain autopsy skills including external examination, evisceration, prosection of gross organs, preparation of tissue for microscopic slides, examination of microscopic slides, and presentation of information derived from foregoing in written form.
Clinical responsibilities:
The resident produces autopsy reports.
Interactions:
Pathology attending, pathologist assistants, medical
examiner's investigator, autopsy assistant, morgue assistant, support staff,
other attending pathologists and residents, clinical
faculty, other laboratory personnel, law enforcement, and occasionally
families.
Teaching:
The
resident will teach medical students and other learners attending autopsies.
Reading requirements:
The resident is required to demonstrate
increasing familiarities with a broad range of pathology literature and
literature related to cases; no specific text is assigned.
Schedules and Conferences:
The resident is to be available for autopsy
duty between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and one weekend per month.
The resident will present at autopsy conference and occasionally at conferences
of other departments.
Procedures:
Evisceration including brain and spinal cord; removal of eyes; brain cutting with faculty and attending neuropathologist.
Research opportunities:
May participate in ongoing faculty research if
interested; may initiate research or report or case in review of literature.
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