Our residency program emphasizes all aspects of practical hands-on training, didactic instruction and clinicopathologic research. Under the supervision of faculty on the medical staff at Baylor Dallas, residents learn to choose appropriate techniques to study specimens and implement procedures to reach a diagnosis.
The comprehensive four-year program includes structured rotations in anatomic and clinical pathology, as well as elective time.
Patología anatómica
The anatomic pathology program includes a versatile surgical pathology service, autopsy pathology (including forensic pathology) and cytopathology.
Patologia clinica
The clinical pathology program features rotations in transfusion medicine, chemistry, hematology, microbiology and immunology. Subspecialty areas include molecular, cytogenetics, toxicology, virology, special hematology and flow cytometry.
Pathology caseload
- Annual surgical pathology accessions: 56,605
- Annual new cancers diagnosed: 3,137
- Annual bone marrow accessions: 1,830
- Annual FNA accessions: 1,909
- Annual non-gynecologic cytology accessions: 3,097
- Annual gynecologic cytology, outpatient accessions: 9,172
- Annual hospital-based autopsies: 108
- Annual forensic autopsies, Dallas County Medical Examiner’s office: 3,208
- Annual clinical laboratory tests: 2,661,533