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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

             A fully ACGME approved four-year comprehensive, combined training core program in Anatomic and Clinical pathology, or three year training in Anatomic only, are available. The training program accepts candidates who have had one year or more of training in a clinical specialty, medical research, transitional year internship, or new medical school graduates.  The combined program features anatomic and clinical rotations integrated in every year.  The core curriculum anatomic pathology rotations include autopsy pathology, surgical pathology, forensic pathology, exfoliative and aspiration cytology, neuropathology, molecular biology and diagnostic electron microscopy. The clinical pathology rotations are taken in clinical biochemistry and toxicology, hematopathology, HLA typing and cytogenetics, microbiology, immunopathology, and blood banking laboratories. Management and administration of laboratories is taught by integration into each rotation. A fifth credentialing year prior to qualification for American Board of Pathology eligibility is also offered, usually as a Surgical Pathology Fellowship. In either program, three months of elective rotations are offered in the third and fourth year to all trainees who are in compliance with basic curriculum requirements. The trainees will also contribute to the interdepartmental residency teaching programs of the Pathology Department and, during the fourth and fifth year serve as Chief Residents. Fifth-year residents also participate in a Junior Attending rotation with responsibility for some case signouts.  Resident participation in research and publication in areas of their interest is highly encouraged and supported.

 

TYPES AND NUMBERS OF APPOINTMENTS

The program is ACGME-approved for a total of 16 positions

  FACILITIES

            Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a 433-bed hospital with several large outpatient clinical services, serving the southwestern portion of Los Angeles County. It is one of the four main medical centers of the UCLA School of Medicine and the second largest of the LA County hospital facilities. More than 20,000 in-patients are admitted and 250,000 out-patients are seen in our clinics every year.  The hospital facilities have undergone extensive renovation, modernization, and earthquake retrofitting.  The Faculty of the Department of Pathology consists of 10 full-time physicians holding academic appointments with the UCLA School of Medicine, an active group of associated pathologists with clinical teaching appointments with the UCLA School of Medicine, and full-time Ph.D. microbiologist, molecular biologist and clinical chemist. Autopsies average 80 per year; additional autopsy experience is provided by an LA Coroner's Department forensic rotation. The Division of Surgical Pathology accessions 10,000 tissue specimens yearly, from a full spectrum of patient demographics and clinical diagnoses. The Diagnostic Cytology Laboratory handles in excess of 1,000 fine needle aspiration cytology specimens a year.  The majority of the latter are performed by Pathology residents. Bone marrow aspirations approximate 350-400 a year; many of these utilize flow cytometry evaluation. About 250 specimens are evaluated every year in our Diagnostic Electron Microscopy Laboratory. In the Clinical Pathology Division, the number of analytical procedures is well in excess of 4,000,000 per year. The clinical laboratory features automated chemistry and hematology analysis with direct computer reporting via the  hospital information computer system which also provides other clinical laboratory and surgical pathology reports to the hospital wards and clinics.  Other facilities include an on-campus, computer-connected branch of the UCLA library and extensive on-campus research facilities of the Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute.

Address inquires to:

Marcia E. Cornford, M.D.

Director, Pathology Training Program

Department of Pathology

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

1000 West Carson Street

Torrance, CA  90502            

e-mail: adflores@dhs.co.la.ca.us

Phone: (310) 222-2643