Pathology Job Search and Interview: Perspectives on the United States Experience.

Context.—: Pathology training is focused on the attainment of clinical, diagnostic, and administrative skills. Preparation for employment search and the interview process are often neglected.

Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice: Application to Adult Advanced Life Support.

Introduction: This curriculum includes three in-person simulation cases for Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) training using the rapid cycle deliberate practice (RCDP) technique. RCDP is a model for simulation-based medical education (SBME) that provides frequent feedback and opportunities to practice techniques until learning is cemented. The intent of these cases was to improve teamwork and communication, role designation, defibrillator operation, leadership, and clinical treatment of cardiac emergencies.

Pretreatment of carprofen impaired initiation of inflammatory- and overlapping resolution response and promoted cardiorenal syndrome in heart failure.

Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used to control pain, inflammation, and limit the cardinal signs of injury in humans. However, prolonged use of NSAIDs increases the risk of heart attack (myocardial infarction; MI) and the subsequent risk of heart and renal failure. The molecular and cellular mechanism of action for this adverse effect, particularly along the cardiorenal network, is incomplete.

Standards and specifications in pathology: image management, report management and terminology.

For making medical decisions, healthcare professionals require that all necessary information is both correct and easily available. Collaborative Digital Anatomic Pathology refers to the use of information technology that supports the creation and sharing or exchange of information, including data and images, during the complex workflow performed in an Anatomic Pathology department from specimen reception to report transmission and exploitation. Collaborative Digital Anatomic Pathology is supported by standardization efforts toward knowledge representation for sharable and computable clinical information.

Biospecimens and biorepositories for the community pathologist.

Pathologists have long served as custodians of human biospecimens collected for diagnostic purposes. Rapid advancements in diagnostic technologies require that pathologists change their practices to optimize patient care. The proper handling of biospecimens creates opportunities for pathologists to improve their diagnoses while assessing prognosis and treatment.

Standardizing the use of whole slide images in digital pathology.

Whole slide imaging/images (WSI) offers promising new perspectives for digital pathology. We launched an initiative in the anatomic pathology (AP) domain of integrating the healthcare enterprise (IHE) to define standards-based informatics transactions for integrating AP information and WSI. The IHE integration and content profiles developed as a result of this initiative successfully support the basic image acquisition and reporting processes in AP laboratories and provide a standard solution for sharing or exchanging structured AP reports in which observations can be explicitly bound to WSI or to regions of interest (ROI) in images.

HL7 CDA implementation guide for structured anatomic pathology reports methodology and tools.

Unlabelled: Anatomic pathology reports (APR) provide diagnostic and prognostic information crucial to patient care, clinical research and epidemiology. Currently, it is difficult to collect and exchange APR data between different healthcare organizations at an international level.

Objective: IHE and HL7 anatomic pathology joint efforts aim at providing a methodology and tools to define an international HL7 "Clinical Document Architecture" (CDA) implementation guide for APRs and especially in the domain of cancer.