STEPs Activities for Klionsky Fellows - Final

STEPs Activities for Klionsky Fellows!
Activity
What's the consensus?
Learn about the Practice of Pathology
through hands-on activities
Description
Observe how pathologists arrive at diagnoses
COD: Autopsies give the answer Observe an autopsy and help the autopsy team
determine the Cause of Death (COD)
Don't freeze up during frozen Participate in a mock frozen section call
sections Getting personal: A deep dive See how tumor DNA can carry mutations that
into personalized medicine can then guide patient therapy
FUN with FNAs
Learn the art of the fine needle aspiration
All ABOut blood products Join the clinical team on blood banking rounds
and tour the blood banking facility
Slide into Histology
Observe tissue slide preparation while touring
the histology lab
Clinical chemistry 101
Learn how routine clinical blood tests are
performed by touring the Automated Testing Lab
Once again, welcome to the exciting world of pathology!
Important Contact Information and Links:
Resident Liaisons
Jeffrey Kleinberger, MD, PhD, PGY-2(kleinbergerjw@upmc.edu)
Shikha Malhotra, MD, PGY-2 (malhotras8@upmc.edu)
Terri Jones, MD, PGY-4 (jonest12@upmc.edu)
Director, Pathology Residency Program and
Director, Pathology Medical Student Education
Marie DeFrances, MD, PhD (defrancesmc@upmc.edu)
Klionsky Summer Research Fellowship
Wendy Mars, PhD (wmars@pitt.edu)
Autopsy Discovery Program
Tanner Bartholow, MD (bartholowtl2@upmc.edu)
Medical Student Training in Pathology at UPMC
http://path.upmc.edu/train.htm#mds
http://path.upmc.edu/career.htm
Post-Sophomore Fellowship
http://path.upmc.edu/brochure/psf.html
Intersociety Council for Pathology Information
http://www.pathologytraining.org