Scheduled in the third or fourth year. Based at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, who oversees the rotation and provides superior training in forensic pathology. The rotation schedule to be implemented for the 1997-98 academic year requires a minimum of 3 months in each of the four major specialties, and an additional six months in Clinical Pathology which may be scheduled with some flexibility among these four laboratories and immunology to accommodate the interests of the resident. This rotation can occur in either the third or fourth year. I year and 4 weeks at the PGY II - IV years.
Vacation time is scheduled to be taken equally from clinical pathology and other rotations.
All of our residents have several opportunities to teach, over and above those inherent in the day to day activities in any quality training program. Residents may take part, on a voluntary basis, in the teaching of medical students as lab proctors at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Fourth year medical students on one month electives present additional opportunities as do clinical residents in Obstetrics and Gynecology who rotate through our Surgical Pathology Service, pediatric residents who rotate through Microbiology, and others. Residents are encouraged to participate in many aspects of research in an environment which promotes research and scholarly activity. Residents have published, and are encouraged to publish, their work in peer level journals.