General Surgical Pathology Fellowship

We are still accepting applications for 2025-26. Position for 2026-27 is filled. We will begin accepting applications for 2027-28 in April-May 2025.

Description

The Yale School of Medicine Department of Pathology is proud to offer a one-year fellowship in general surgical pathology based at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Bridgeport Hospital is a member of Yale New Haven Health System and an affiliate of Yale school of medicine. The Pathology department accessions over 24,000 surgical pathology cases per year, covering nearly all areas of surgical pathology, but with heavy emphasis on gastrointestinal, breast, gynecologic, and urologic pathology. This fellowship is focused on practical general surgical pathology training with emphasis on surgical pathology sign-out and frozen section analysis. The fellowship benefits from its association with the main Yale New Haven Hospital campus where the fellow will spend two to three months in subspecialties of the fellow's interest.

Educational Objectives

• Develop competency and confidence in morphologic diagnosis and in frozen section diagnosis in various subspecialties
• Understand the capabilities and the limitations of frozen section and histopathologic assessment and it's the impact on the clinical management
• Ability to appropriately choose and interpret immunohistochemical tests and incorporate molecular data into the practice of surgical pathology
• Understand pathologist participation and role in tumor boards
• Ability of effectively communicate pathological diagnosis to clinicians
• Cultivate an area of subspecialty interest

Activities

Primary commitment will be given to an active clinical service as fellows are an integral part of patient care in the Yale health care system. Along with honing histopathology diagnostic skills in all areas of surgical pathology, the fellow will have primary responsibility for frozen section preparation and analysis. Also, the fellow can develop skills in cytology onsite adequacy in imaging assisted procedures. Bridgeport pathology has a close working relationship with all the clinical services and is an active participant in the gastrointestinal, urologic, breast, endocrine and pulmonary tumor boards. The fellow will have responsibility for reviewing and presenting cases at Bridgeport tumor boards at the discretion of the Department Head of Bridgeport Pathology. In addition, the fellow is encouraged to help the pathology subspecialties at the Yale-New Haven campus provide lectures for the surgical pathology residents and to engage in novel research efforts or in ongoing research projects at the Yale-New Haven main campus. Up to three months of the fellowship will be spent in subspecialty areas at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. The fellow’s education is supplemented by seminars, journal clubs, lectures and grand rounds given by Yale faculty and invited lecturers to the Department of Pathology.

Requirements

Three years of training in anatomic pathology or four years combined anatomic and clinical pathology; board certification in anatomic pathology is desirable.

Stipends

Stipends commensurate with hospital policy.