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Anatomic & Clinical Pathology Conferences

Monday Conferences
7:00 am Head and Neck conference
12:00 noon  Grand Rounds (Spring, Fall and Winter) arranged by Pathology Faculty
1:00 pm Microbiology ID rounds - Microbiology resident and attending
1:30 pm Neuropathology slide conference -Neuropathology fellow and residents  
   
Tuesday Conference
7:00 am Chest conference, 8 Maloney - Medical Pathology resident and attending
8:00 am Medical Grand Rounds
8:15 am Med Path/Surg Path Gross conference, Morgue - AP Chief Resident and Med. Path. residents
9:00 am Genetics Rounds
10:00 am HLA rounds - HLA attending
12:00 noon Management conference (semi-monthly) - CP chief resident
12:00 noon Medicine-Pathology CPC conference - Pathology & Medicine residents
12:00 noon Thoracic conference, Surgery conference room - Pathology & Surgery residents and attendings
1:00 pm Clinical Microbiology Plate Rounds - Microbiology resident
3:00 pm Medical Examiners Office Brain Cutting - Pathology attending
5:00 pm GI Pathology conference - Pathology attending - Dr. Furth
   
Wednesday Conferences
7:30 am Didactic lecture series - AP Chief resident and attendings
8:15 am Tumor Board - Hirst Auditorium
9:30 am Virology lecture series - R. Hodinka, PhD, CHOP
10:00 am Autoimmune conference - M. Kamoun, MD, PhD
11:00 am Microbiology Management conference - Microbiology residents, staff and attendings
12:00 noon Laboratory Medicine Wednesday noon talk - Chief Resident, Lab Medicine
12:00 noon Brain Cutting, Autopsy Suite - Neuropath fellow, resident and attending.
12:00 noon Endocrine CPC conference - Cytopathology fellow
1:00 pm Homicide conference/Kodachrome conference - Medical Examiner (alternating weekly)
5:00 pm HemePath slide conference - Hematopathology attending - Dr. Bonner
   
Thursday Conferences
7:30 am Unknown Slide Teaching conference, Enterline Room, 6 Founders - Pathology attendings

 

11:00 am
Blood Bank Management conference, Blood Bank staff, attendings and residents
12:00 noon Cervical Dysplasia Colposcopy conference, Cytopathology fellow
1:00 pm Microbiology ID Rounds - Microbiology resident and attending
1:00 pm Pediatric Brain Cutting - Path attending - Dr. Rorke, CHOP Autopsy Room
4:00 pm Interesting Case conference - Pathology residents and attendings
4:00 pm Cardiac Pathology conference - CHOP, Heart Station conference
   
Friday Conferences
8:00 am Leukemia/Lymphoma  conference - Hematopathology fellow, residents and attending
8:00 am ID Management conference, Infectious disease staff
12:00 pm ID Journal Club - fellows, Microbiology resident
1:30 pm Hematology/Oncology conference 5 Maloney, heme-onc staff and fellows
   
Additional Daily Conferences
  • Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine, Staff on Rotation (3:00 pm daily rounds)
  • Neuropathology Slide conference, Neuropathology fellow and resident (1:30 pm daily rounds)
  • Breast QA conference, Dr. Mies, 12:00 noon
  • Pulmonary QA conference, Dr. Litzky, 2:00 pm
  • GI QA conference, Dr. Furth, 3:00 pm
  • GU QA conference, Dr. Tomaszewski, 5:00 pm
  • Dermatopathology QA conference, Dr. Xu, 4:00 pm (M/W/F only)
   
AP and CP Conferences  (weekly unless otherwise stated)
Name of Conference Frequency Held Individual/Department Responsible for Organization
Medical Mortality conference once a month Path. and Medicine residents & attendings
Surgical Mortality conference once a month Surgery (Pathology as needed)
Pediatric Mortality conference N/A N/A
Gross Pathology conference once a month AP Chief Resident and Medical Pathology residents
Surgical Pathology conference once a day Residents on Surgical Pathology and Head of SP
Cytopathology conference once a day Residents and fellows on rotation and Cytology Faculty
Journal Club/Research conference once a month Residents/visiting speakers arranged by Path
Hematology conference once a day Residents and Attending on Hematopathology
Clinical Pathology conference twice a week CP Residents, CP Chief Resident and rotating CP attending
On-call review twice a week CP Chief Resident and residents on service
Sarcoma Working conference once a month Soft tissue attendings and residents on Molecular Pathology
Multi-institutional GI/Liver once every 3 months GI attending and residents and fellows on GI