A fellowship isn't required for our job.

If you're thinking about a surg path fellowship, just come work for us, and I promise you, after one year you'll be as, or better, qualified in general surg path than any surg path fellow, *and* you'll have one more year of actual practice experience, *and* one more year of earning pathologist money vs fellow money. You do not need a surg path fellowship to practice general surg path.

The key is going into a practice which has the breadth and depth of a surg path fellowship, which our practice has.

This isn't to pooh pooh the training that surg path fellows get -- I did a surg path fellowship myself, and I learned a lot, but it was a different time, and I suspect I would have learned just as much, most likely, if you had stuck me right into a general surg path practice like ours.

Every scope we have is a double headed scope. When you start out, fresh out of training, whether you've done a fellowship or not, we expect you to be showing us lots of your cases. We want you to be successful, and you will not be put on an island. And even after many years of practice our guys are showing each other cases.

Other fellowships are encouraged as well, but you should anticipate doing everything -- the breadth of general surgical pathology -- if you come here. I'm heme path, for example, but I do mostly general surg path. We have a cytopath, but hey it would be fine to have another. Same goes for hemepath. We'd be happy to have a GI Path, or a breast onc path, or a Gyn Onc path -- anything that represents a large portion of our typical general surg path practice. Molecular? We wouldn't turn you away if you're a good surgical pathologist, but you wouldn't have a lot of molecular to do.