Examining the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mitigating workforce burnout in laboratory medicine.

Objectives: The clinical laboratory workforce plays a crucial role in health care delivery, yet little is known about the unique pressures and challenges this workforce faces. The objective of this study was to identify factors that contribute to burnout, discrimination, exclusion, and inequity in pathology and laboratory medicine.

Methods: A nationwide survey was conducted in 2 phases.

Using biological constraints to improve prediction in precision oncology.

Many gene signatures have been developed by applying machine learning (ML) on profiles, however, their clinical utility is often hindered by limited interpretability and unstable performance. Here, we show the importance of embedding prior biological knowledge in the decision rules yielded by ML approaches to build robust classifiers. We tested this by applying different ML algorithms on gene expression data to predict three difficult cancer phenotypes: bladder cancer progression to muscle-invasive disease, response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer, and prostate cancer metastatic progression.

Workplace Bullying in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Objectives: The specific aims of the study are to explore the prevalence of workplace bullying and to understand the impact of bullying on individual wellness in order to facilitate the development of future organizational solutions to mitigate workplace incivility.

Methods: Cross-sectional data were collected via a web-based survey to gather exploratory demographic information and to assess the relationships between intensity of the exposure to the negative acts with laboratory productivity. Associations between laboratories offering resources to employees and their impacts on productivity and professional job fulfillment were also explored.

On Pathology Laboratory Recruitment and Retention.

Objectives: The specific aims of the study are to analyze relationships between the personality traits of laboratory professionals and choice of profession and preferred work settings.

Methods: Data from practicing laboratory professionals were collected via a web-based survey tool to gather information about personality types, choice of profession, and work setting preferences among medical laboratory professionals.

Results: Results of the survey showed that INFJ (Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, Judging) is the most common medical laboratory personality type across the various laboratory work settings and that there are no significant differences between the practitioners' personality type and the choice of profession within pathology.

Frontline Workers in the Backrooms of COVID-19.

Objectives: To review the response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in a forensics center that integrates an academic department of pathology with multiple regional county medical examiners' offices.

Methods: Faculty and staff were asked to volunteer stories, data, and photographs describing their activities from March through May 2020. The information was assembled into a narrative summary.

The American Society for Clinical Pathology's Job Satisfaction, Well-Being, and Burnout Survey of Pathologists.

Objectives: To examine job satisfaction, well-being, job stress, and burnout among pathologists.

Methods: The study utilized a cross-sectional survey design. The survey was administered online via the American Society for Clinical Pathology's (ASCP's) survey tool to elicit information about job satisfaction, well-being, job stress, and burnout among pathologists.

The American Society for Clinical Pathology's Job Satisfaction, Well-Being, and Burnout Survey of Laboratory Professionals.

Objectives: To examine job satisfaction, well-being, job stress, and burnout among laboratory professionals.

Methods: The study utilized a cross-sectional survey design. The survey was administered online via the American Society for Clinical Pathology's survey tool, to elicit information about job satisfaction, well-being, job stress, and burnout among medical laboratory professionals.

Learning Styles in Pathology: A Comparative Analysis and Implications for Learner-Centered Education.

Initiatives like "American Medical Association (AMA)-Reimagining Residency" and "Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-Next Accreditation System" are examples of a paradigm shift toward learner-centered pedagogy in resident education. Such interventions require an understanding of the basics of the learning process itself. This study aimed to identify preferred learning styles in pathology with the intent to use specialty-specific pattern data, if any, to improve pathology training modalities.