(ethereal music)
- [Narrator] This is OHSU, shaped by leaders, pioneers,
and those brave enough to take that first step.
We carry the torch and shine a light on what is possible.
We are a collaboration of disciplines listening to one another,
learning from each other.
The OHSU Pathology Residency Program
is more than an opportunity to gain experience.
It's your time to serve with a community
of trailblazers and groundbreakers.
- Pathology touches all the disciplines.
Every lab test that comes out
of any different kind of clinic comes through pathology.
Every disease process comes through pathology.
I often say that nothing exciting happens in the hospital
without us knowing about it.
We've trained in both anatomic pathology
and in clinical pathology,
and that's a careful balance throughout the four years.
And that we want our trainees when they're finished
to be able to enter into the many different practice areas
that are out there.
We have residents go into forensic pathology.
We have residents go into clinical pathology only.
We have residents go into private practice,
go into academics, go on to do research.
And so it's a challenge for us in four years
to make sure a resident can be prepared
for any one of those end jobs.
So that's our mission, train good pathologists
to do a variety of jobs when they're done.
- I want to make sure that I was going
to leave the program feeling competent
as a general pathologist.
And so then it came down to what my priorities were for
during this four to six year period.
And for me, it was making sure
that I had those good connections with the people
that I was going to be working with.
That attending seemed really approachable.
And then I wanted a program that had fellowships
that I might be interested in in-house so that I could stay
and to see that the residents who are already here,
that if they wanted to go elsewhere for fellowship,
they were totally able
to get into the program that they want.
- It does feel very much like a team, almost like a family.
We are a smaller program.
We have 12 pathology residents.
Because of that, I think it's very collaborative.
You get to work with other pathologists,
you get to work with all kinds of clinicians
from all different fields.
Just this past Saturday, we had a bring your own picnic
at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park, near Poet's Beach.
And we just kind of sat socially distance on the grass
and had like a bring your own picnic.
And I think that doing that
really helps our work environment
because it carries over into our work every day.
And so we're excited to see each other.
- Great people, great coworkers, great co-residents,
great support staff, great attending physicians.
It's just a very friendly,
comfortable, collegial environment.
Pathology is teamwork for sure.
Everybody has an important role.
Nobody's working in isolation.
- We do have partners with other hospitals.
So residents do get perspectives
from different types of practice settings
within their four-year program, but ultimately,
we all come back together weekly for meeting.
The way rotations work will overlap more often than we don't
in so many different practice areas.
And then our pathologists
often cover more than one area as well.
So the residents are rotating
and the fellowships are rotating.
So we get this mix of perspectives
that really allows, I think, the trainees to understand
what it means to be an academic pathologist,
but also seeing these other practice areas,
they understand what it means to work for the VA
or private practice setting.
- It's super important to just be yourself,
which sounds kind of cliche, but it's very true.
And I think that that's why the interview process
is so important, because you can read a lot of things
on paper, on a CV, in a personal statement,
you can look at someone's transcript,
but I think the most important part
of getting an interview for any residency,
but particularly pathology, is they want to see you
as a person and they want to get to know you as a person.
And so I think being yourself is the most important.
So, answer questions honestly, be genuine.
- Portland in general is a great place
for trying to be yourself.
And OHSU, I think is very much in line
with Portland in that way.
One of the big draws actually to pathology was,
a friend of mine was like, "You should go talk
"to this one pathologist and see how you like it."
And we talked about pathology for about 15 minutes
and then spent the next two hours talking about salamanders.
Then I was like, "Oh, maybe this is my people." (laughs)
- I really haven't found anything like it in other places
that I've been, where it's so easy to call somebody up
or to send our trainees to their areas to work.
If they're looking for a small- to medium-sized program
that has world-class training,
I think this is the place for them.
- [Narrator] At some point, it's about the why you do
what you do as much as the how.
We do it because we are bold.
We do it because someone needs to make the difference.
And we know we can make the difference
because we already have.
We welcome the curious,
inspired, and those willing to be bold.
This is OHSU.