In addition, residents participate on numerous hospital committees, and are encouraged to attend and provide continuing education conferences. Opportunities to participate in numerous research projects are available for those interested. Residents rotate through each unit and serve as laboratory physicians in all unit activities. During their rotations, residents are members of the unit management team and are actively involved in administration, planning and implementation of services, as well as solving operational problems. There is a core rotation in laboratory administration with the laboratory management team.
Strong emphasis is placed on the evolving role os the laboratory in the managed care setting.
The pathology residents also participate in daily culture plate rounds and when applicable, teach the infectious disease housestaff and medical students. He is an acknowledged expert in the field of drug resistant pneumococci, anaerobes and gram-negative aerobic organisms. Where possible, residents undertake research projects directed towards bacterial identification and susceptibility testing. Organized bench rotations with microbiology technologists provide the resident with daily instruction in the practical aspects of bacteriology. In Vitro activity of cefminox against anaerobic bacteria compared with those of nine other compounds.