A CAREER IN PATHOLOGY

Dear Prospective Resident:

If you are considering Pathology as a career, you are considering one of the most challenging, exciting, and rewarding specialties in medical practice. The pathologist serves as a consultant for almost all other medical disciplines. Most patients require laboratory procedures, usually performed under the supervision of the pathologist. Most patients with neoplasms and many with infectious diseases, dermatologic conditions, and other medical or surgical problems, require a biopsy diagnosis by the pathologist in order for the proper treatment to be planned. The pathologist is truly the “doctor’s doctor”.

The usual training in pathology consists of two years of Anatomic Pathology (Surgical Pathology, Cytopathology, Autopsy Pathology, Forensic Pathology, Electron Microscopy) and two years of Clinical Pathology (Hematopathology, Clinical Chemistry, Blood Banking, Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Microscopy, Informatics, Molecular Pathology).

At LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport, we have an excellent training program supervised by a knowledgeable and caring staff. A big plus in our program is the daily sign-out conference attended by residents and fellows assigned to Surgical Pathology and the entire surgical pathology staff. We treat our residents as colleagues rather than subordinates.

If you are interested in the challenging and dynamic field of Pathology as a career choice, please consider our program and the many things it has to offer.

Stephen Bonsib, M.D.
Director of Residency Training
Department of Pathology
LSUHSC-Shreveport