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Annales de Pathologie Feb 2021
Topics: Humans; Pathologists; Pathology; Pathology, Clinical
PubMed: 33413971
DOI: 10.1016/j.annpat.2020.12.004 -
Der Pathologe Mar 2022
Topics: Communication; Humans; Pathologists
PubMed: 35230514
DOI: 10.1007/s00292-022-01054-8 -
Journal of the American Society of... 2021
Topics: Biopsy; Cell Biology; Certification; Clinical Competence; Curriculum; Cytological Techniques; Education, Medical, Graduate; Humans; Pathologists; Pathology; Specialization
PubMed: 34629163
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasc.2021.07.004 -
Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports Oct 2020Social media engagement by medical professionals with varied background subspecialties has steadily gained popularity in recent years. As a heavily visual discipline,... (Review)
Review
PURPOSE OF REVIEW
Social media engagement by medical professionals with varied background subspecialties has steadily gained popularity in recent years. As a heavily visual discipline, pathology has been able to leverage social media platforms for trainee education, curbside and official consultations, interdisciplinary communication, and interactions among medical professionals and patient education. The pathology community has been at the forefront of using social media as an educational forum, and the hematopathology community has emerged as one of the strongest and most influential presences on these online platforms. In this review, we perform an in-depth analysis of various Twitter metrics to demonstrate key trends in the usage of social media as it pertains to hematopathology using the hashtag #Hemepath and we describe specific details on how hematopathologists have managed to take advantage of Twitter in furthering our mission of advancing medical education and disseminating knowledge using these innovative virtual educational experiences.
RECENT FINDINGS
The hematopathology community has a great degree of enthusiasm among residents, fellows, and faculty in sharing educational material using case-based examples, participating in group-based online activities, introducing new publications by article authors or readership, and disseminating educational "pearls" from medical conferences, using hashtags and digital images that otherwise would not be readily available to many around the globe. This practice is helping reshape the structure of our field and is providing opportunities to optimize the educational experience by enhancing the instant exposure to cutting-edge information and expert opinions, among other valuable features. The hematopathology community has leveraged social media platforms for disseminating educational material and strengthening interdisciplinary interactions and is a "poster child" for a medical subspecialty that has thrived and flourished by more broadly adopting virtual educational platforms. We hope that this review will provide details on how social media platforms can be used by others in the medical field to achieve similar goals.
Topics: Attitude to Computers; Education, Medical; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Hematology; Humans; Information Dissemination; Pathologists; Scholarly Communication; Social Media; Time Factors
PubMed: 33128122
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-020-00600-6 -
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory... May 2017
Topics: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Forecasting; Humans; Pathologists
PubMed: 28447905
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0593-ED -
Modern Pathology : An Official Journal... May 2021Hematopathologists are witnessing very exciting times, as a new era of unsurpassed technological advances is unfolding exponentially, enhancing our understanding of...
Hematopathologists are witnessing very exciting times, as a new era of unsurpassed technological advances is unfolding exponentially, enhancing our understanding of diseases at the genomic and molecular levels. In the evolving field of precision medicine, our contributions as hematopathologists to medical practice are of paramount importance. Social media platforms such as Twitter have helped facilitate and enrich our professional interactions and collaborations with others in our field and in other medical disciplines leading to a more holistic approach to patient care. These platforms also have created a novel means for instantaneous dissemination of new findings and recent publications, and are proving to be increasingly useful tools that can be harnessed to expand our knowledge and amplify our presence in the medical community. In this Editorial, we share our experience as hematopathologists with Twitter, and how we leveraged this platform to boost scholarly activities within and beyond our subspecialty, and as a powerful medium for worldwide dissemination of educational material and to promote our remote teaching activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Topics: COVID-19; Congresses as Topic; Education, Medical, Continuing; Hematology; Humans; Information Dissemination; Pathologists; Pathology; Scholarly Communication; Social Media; Specialization; Texas; Videoconferencing
PubMed: 33219298
DOI: 10.1038/s41379-020-00715-4 -
Virchows Archiv : An International... Jun 2018In recent decades, various highly qualified individuals have increasingly performed tasks that have historically been handled by physicians with the aim of reducing... (Review)
Review
In recent decades, various highly qualified individuals have increasingly performed tasks that have historically been handled by physicians with the aim of reducing their workload. Over time, however, these "physician assistants" or "physician extenders" have gained more and more responsibilities, showing that specific tasks can be performed equally skilfully by specialised health care professionals. The pathologist's assistant (PathA) is a highly qualified technician who works alongside the pathologist and is responsible for the grossing and autopsies. This profession was developed in the USA, with formal training programmes starting in 1970 when Dr. Kinney, director of the Department of Pathology of Duke University, Durham, NC, started the first dedicated course. Most institutes in the USA and Canada currently employ these technical personnel for grossing, and numerous papers published over the years demonstrate the quality of the assistance provided by the PathA, which is equal to or sometimes even better than the performance of pathologists. The PathA can be employed to carry out a wide range of tasks to assist the pathologist, such as grossing (the description and reduction of surgical specimens), judicial autopsies and administrative and supervisory practices within the laboratory or assistance in research, although the diagnosis is always the pathologist's responsibility. Since this role has already been consolidated in North America, part of the relevant literature is altogether out of date. However, the situation is different in Europe, where there is an increasing interest in PathA, mainly because of the benefits of their inclusion in anatomic pathology laboratories. In the UK, biomedical scientists (BMS, the British equivalent of PathA) are involved in many tasks both in surgical pathology and in cytopathology, which are generally performed by medically trained staff. Several papers have been recently published to highlight the role of BMS with the broader public. This report aimed to conduct a systematic review of all the articles published about the PathA/BMS and to perform a narrative synthesis. The results may contribute to the evidence for including the PAthA/BMS within a surgical pathology laboratory organisation.
Topics: Autopsy; Europe; Humans; Laboratories; Pathologists; Pathology, Surgical; Workforce; Workload
PubMed: 29380127
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-018-2300-x -
Annals of Diagnostic Pathology Oct 2019Beyond squamous carcinoma, a variety of diagnostically challenging neoplasms arise within various head and neck sites. This is particularly the situation with neoplasms... (Review)
Review
CONTEXT
Beyond squamous carcinoma, a variety of diagnostically challenging neoplasms arise within various head and neck sites. This is particularly the situation with neoplasms where little cellular cytoplasm is present to assist the pathologist in categorizing such lesions.
OBJECTIVE
To highlight diagnostic pitfalls that accompanying neoplasms composed primarily of 'cytoplasmically-poor' cells. These pitfalls include morphologic and immunohistochemical traps that emerge from this class of neoplasms.
DATA SOURCES
Selection of pathologic specimens from the author's personal files, and literature review.
CONCLUSIONS
Interpretative pitfalls regarding the histopathology and immunophenotype of small 'cytoplasmically-poor' neoplasms are a diagnostic hazard in head and neck surgical pathology practice, and require knowledge of histomorphologic plasticity and aberrant immunophenotyping.
Topics: Head and Neck Neoplasms; Humans; Pathologists; Pathology, Clinical
PubMed: 31382078
DOI: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2019.07.005 -
American Journal of Clinical Pathology Nov 2021
Topics: Humans; Pathologists; Physicians
PubMed: 34549266
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqab040 -
JAMA Network Open Jul 2020There is currently no national organization that publishes its data that serves as the authoritative source of the pathologist workforce in the US. Accurate physician...
IMPORTANCE
There is currently no national organization that publishes its data that serves as the authoritative source of the pathologist workforce in the US. Accurate physician numbers are needed to plan for future health care service requirements.
OBJECTIVE
To assess the accuracy of current pathologist workforce estimates in the US by examining why divergency appears in different published resources.
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS
This study examined the American Board of Pathology classification for pathologist primary specialty and subspecialties and analyzed previously published reports from the following data sources: the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), a 2013 College of American Pathologists (CAP) report, a commercially available version of the American Medical Assoication (AMA) Physician Masterfile, and an unpublished data summary from June 10, 2019.
MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES
Number of physicians classified as pathologists.
RESULTS
The most recent AAMC data from 2017 (published in 2018) reported 12 839 physicians practicing "anatomic/clinical pathology," which is a subset of the whole. In comparison, the current AMA Physician Masterfile, which is not available publicly, listed 21 292 active pathologists in June 2019. The AMA Physician Masterfile includes all pathologists in 15 subspecialized training areas as identified by the ACGME. By contrast, AAMC's data, which derive from the AMA Physician Masterfile data, only count physicians primarily associated with 3 general categories of pathologists and 1 subspecialty category (ie, chemical pathology). Thus, the AAMC pathology workforce estimate does not include those whose principal work is in 11 subspecialty areas, such as blood banking or transfusion medicine, cytopathology, hematopathology, or microbiology. An additional discrepancy relates to the ACGME residency (specialties) and fellowship (subspecialties) training programs in which pathologists with training in dermatopathology appear as dermatologists and pathologists with training in molecular genetic pathology appear as medical geneticists.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE
This analysis found that most sources reported only select categories of the pathologist workforce rather than the complete workforce. The discordant nature of reporting may pertain to other medical specialties that have undergone increased subspecialization during the past 2 decades (eg, surgery and medicine). Reconsideration of the methods for determining the pathologist workforce and for all workforces in medicine appears to be needed.
Topics: Forensic Pathology; Health Workforce; Humans; Neuropathology; Pathologists; Pathology; Pathology, Clinical; United States; Workforce
PubMed: 32672830
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.10648