Prioritizing the Interview in Selecting Resident Applicants: Behavioral Interviews to Determine Goodness of Fit.

From our initial screening of applications, we assess that the 10% to 15% of applicants whom we will interview are all academically qualified to complete our residency training program. This initial screening to select applicants to interview includes a personality assessment provided by the personal statement, Dean's letter, and letters of recommendation that, taken together, begin our evaluation of the applicant's cultural fit for our program. While the numerical scoring ranks applicants preinterview, the final ranking into best fit categories is determined solely on the interview day at a consensus conference by faculty and residents.

Training the Next Generation of Pathologists: A Novel Residency Program Curriculum at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Pathology residency training is currently a time-intensive process, frequently extending up to 6 years in duration as residents complete 1 or 2 fellowships following graduation. Innovative training curricula may help address the impending changes in the health-care landscape, particularly future shortfalls in pathology staffing and changing health-care models that incorporate more work within interdisciplinary teams. Montefiore has created a novel residency training program aimed at accelerating the acquisition of competency in pathology, preparing residents for independent practice at the completion of residency training, and providing residents with the requisite adaptability and consultative skills to excel wherever they choose to practice.

Report and Recommendations of the Association of Pathology Chairs' Autopsy Working Group.

Autopsy has been a foundation of pathology training for many years, but hospital autopsy rates are notoriously low. At the 2014 meeting of the Association of Pathology Chairs, some pathologists suggested removing autopsy from the training curriculum of pathology residents to provide additional months for training in newer disciplines, such as molecular genetics and informatics. At the same time, the American Board of Pathology received complaints that newly hired pathologists recently certified in anatomic pathology are unable to perform an autopsy when called upon to do so.

Training Pathology Residents to Practice 21st Century Medicine: A Proposal.

Scientific advances, open information access, and evolving health-care economics are disrupting extant models of health-care delivery. Physicians increasingly practice as team members, accountable to payers and patients, with improved efficiency, value, and quality. This change along with a greater focus on population health affects how systems of care are structured and delivered.

Professionalism in Pathology: A Case-Based Approach as a Potential Educational Tool.

Context: -Professionalism issues in residency training can be difficult to assess and manage. Generational or role-based differences may also exist between faculty and residents as to what constitutes unprofessional behavior and how to manage it.

Objective: -To examine and compare how faculty and residents would approach the same 5 case scenarios detailing various aspects of unprofessional behavior.

Onboarding for Pathology Residency Programs-The Montefiore Experience.

Onboarding is a system frequently used in the corporate world as a means of orienting incoming employees to their duties and inculcating the workplace values. The program aims to facilitate transition into new work roles and improve employee retention rates. At Montefiore, we have instituted an onboarding curriculum that is given to new anatomic and clinical pathology residents about a month prior to the start of residency.

A team-based approach to autopsy education: integrating anatomic and clinical pathology at the rotation level.

Context: Pathology residency training programs should aim to teach residents to think beyond the compartmentalized data of specific rotations and synthesize data in order to understand the whole clinical picture when interacting with clinicians.

Objective: To test a collaborative autopsy procedure at Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, New York), linking residents and attending physicians from anatomic and clinical pathology in the autopsy process from the initial chart review to the final report. Residents consult with clinical pathology colleagues regarding key clinical laboratory findings during the autopsy.

Anatomic and clinical pathology boot camps: filling pathology-specific gaps in undergraduate medical education.

Context: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education began an initiative to change medical education across the United States in the early 2000s. With the explosion in medical science knowledge, the need arose to teach selected fundamental information both in a contextual and in an active learning manner.

Objective: To identify ways to address gaps in training and knowledge that became apparent following implementation of learner-centered teaching methods, with devotion of more time to Internet-based learning and less emphasis on face-to-face lecture time.

The pathology milestones and the next accreditation system.

Context: In the late 1990s, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education developed the Outcomes Project and the 6 general competencies with the intent to improve the outcome of graduate medical education in the United States. The competencies were used as the basis for developing learning goals and objectives and tools to evaluate residents' performance. By the mid-2000s the stakeholders in resident education and the general public felt that the Outcomes Project had fallen short of expectations.

Effects of desialylation of ovine submaxillary gland mucin (OSM) on humoral and cellular immune responses to Tn and sialylated Tn.

Resected carcinoma patients were immunized 3-5 times with ovine submaxillary gland mucin (OSM) containing predominantly sialylated Tn (sTn), completely desialylated ovine submaxillary gland mucin (dOSM) containing predominantly Tn, or 50% desialylated OSM containing Tn and sTn plus bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) as an immunologic adjuvant. Pre- and postimmunization sera were quantified by ELISA, whole-cell ELISA, and immune stain dot blots. Fifteen of 17 patients produced IgG antibody titers from 40 to 5120 times more reactive with OSM and dOSM postimmunization.

DNA biomarkers antecede semiquantitative anthracycline cardiomyopathy.

Adriamycin (ADM, or doxorubicin hydrochloride) is an effective antineoplastic agent whose use is restricted by its well-described, dose-dependent cardiotoxicity. This study measures ADM DNA adduct formation by 32P-radiolabeling DNA, enzymatically digesting radiolabeled DNA, separating the formed adducts on two-dimensional thinlayer chromatography (2D-TLC), and quantitating the adducts with autoradiography and densitometry. Thirty-six male Sprague-Dawley rats are randomized to receive ADM at varying intraperitoneal (i.