Program Overview
The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) offers training in Anatomic pathology through a four-year residency program. The primary goal of the program is to educate residents to become knowledgeable Anatomic pathologists who are self-motivated and competent to pursue either an academic or a private practice career in Pathology.
The residency emphasizes training built on competency-based educational objectives and dependable educational outcome assessment. Residents play an active role in departmental activities including service, administration and research.
Practical clinical experience is balanced by a wide variety of conferences and didactic activities. A core curriculum of weekly conferences covers all of the basic elements of anatomic pathology and its subspecialties. Numerous inter and intradepartmental conferences provide breadth and depth to the residents’ training.
Goals and Objectives
Goals:
- Provide the knowledge, technical skills and experience necessary for residents to competently practice anatomic pathology. This includes developing knowledge of basic pathologic processes and skills needed for the successful practice of pathology (i.e. the ability to recognize, interpret, and explain pathologic processes), interpret laboratory data as well as make clinicopathologic correlations.
- Promote effective communication and sharing of expertise with peers and colleagues.
- Promote the development of investigative skills to better understand pathologic processes as they apply to both individual patients and the general diverse patient population.
- Promote the acquisition of knowledge and provide experience in laboratory direction and management and encourage residents to assume a leadership role in the education of other physicians and allied health professionals.
Objectives of the Pathology Residency Program in the Six Core Competencies:
- Patient Care: The resident will acquire competency in the technical generation and interpretation of laboratory data and in the formulation of clinicopathologic correlations, so as to provide appropriate and effective consultation in the context of pathology services. The resident will learn how to work effectively within a multidisciplinary health care team, participating as appropriate in informed decision-making and clinical management.
- Medical Knowledge: The resident will acquire knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and clinically related sciences and will apply this knowledge to the understanding of basic pathologic processes in both individual patients and the general patient population. The resident will apply concepts of investigational and analytic thinking to the interpretation of laboratory data.
- Practice-based Learning and Improvement: The resident will learn to appraise and assimilate scientific data from the medical literature toward the practice of evidence-based medicine. The resident will learn to apply research and statistical methods to laboratory data. The resident will learn the principles and practice of information technology and how it can be used to manage patient data. The resident will learn to investigate and evaluate his/her own diagnostic and consultative practices, and to improve his/her patient care practices.
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills: The resident will develop interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and expertise with other health care providers, patients, and patients’ families, and will assume an active role in the education of the health-care community.
- Professionalism: The resident will develop a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse population of patients and health care providers.
- Systems-based practice: The resident will develop knowledge and experience in laboratory management, an awareness and responsiveness to the place of pathology in the larger context and system of health care, and the ability to call on resources within the system to provide pathology services that are of optimal value.
Clinical Training and Key Rotations
PGY1: 3 months orientation, followed by one month rotation in each of the following specialties: Gastrointestinal (lower and upper), Gynecological, Skin, Breast, Head and Neck, Urological, Hepatobiliary and Cytology
PGY2 and 3: One month rotation in each of the following specialties in each year: Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary, Cytology, Urological, Renal, Skin, Breast, Head and Neck, Hematopathology, Bone and soft tissue, Neuropathology and Thoracic pathology.
PGY4: 2 months electives in Hematology and Diagnostic Genomics. 10 months rotation in Gastrointestinal, Cytology, Neuropathology, Renal, Urological, Breast, Gynecological, Bone and soft tissue, Skin and Head and Neck pathology
Contact Information
Program Director:
Dr. Syed Rizvi
Associate Program Director(s):
Dr. Mouhammad Zuhair Sharaf Eldean
Program Coordinator:
Ms. Anwar Al-Hwsali
Program Email:
AAlHwsali@hamad.qa
