Clinical pathology rotations Rhode Island Hospital in the Miriam Hospital are designed to give residents exposure to laboratory techniques at the bench time for study and research.

• Call responsibilities begin halfway through the first year and halfway into the fourth year to allow for an adjustment period for incoming new residents and time for board study for senior residents, respectively.
• Residents on call handle clinical questions directly from providers and troubleshoot clinical lab questions, as well as after-hours intraoperative consultation, including assessing organs for transplantation.

Yes, per Brown GME requirements, residents are required to pass step 3/Level 3 during training. 

The program directors maintain an open-door policy for any concerns, and the program directors meet with the residents regualarly for open discussion regarding issues in the residency. Brown Graduate Medical Education sends out semiannual surveys, and residents are polled for input on their training program. The chief residents, faculty, program directors, and Graduate Medical Education staff are all available for any immediate concerns for time-sensitive matters.

While the hours of operation may widely vary between rotations and rotation sites, our residents are expected to stay well under the 80-hour work limit, and a regular surgical pathology rotation (our heaviest service) often entails up to 50 to 60-hour work weeks with at least 2 Saturdays of half day grossing while on the surgical pathology service.

Rhode Island Hospital is 719-bed hospital in the capital city of the state and is the primary referral center in the Southeastern portion of the New England region.  We serve a diverse population of patients and see wide variety of pathology in all services.  Residents here enjoy a wide variety of amenities within Brown University as well as facilities on campus within the Lifespan and Care New England system.

Since 2015, approximately 18% of our graduates ended up in clinical pathology careers, mostly hematopathology.

Yes! Learn more about our graduates on the alumni page of our website.

Alumni

Our surgical pathology rotations at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital are general sign out, and our rotations at Women and Infants in Perinatal Pathology and Gynecological Pathology are subspecialty sign out.

Yes, all surgical pathology rotation sites have pathology assistants working on-site alongside rotating pathology residents.

• Surgical pathology at Rhode Island Hospital
  • 4 residents on service (including 2 senior residents for supervision and guidance)
  • Ample time for previewing and signing out
  • Graduated responsibility 
• Surgical pathology at Miriam Hospital is on a one-day cycle with a limit on specimen numbers to allow for adequate time for preview and study.

Residents are primarily assigned malignant cases but are also given opportunities (if interested) to experience grossing and working up benign cases to familiarize residents with the full spectrum of specimen types.

Frozen sections are part of surgical pathology rotation and are assigned to each resident on a weekly basis.

Yes, our “boot camp” is one-month long introduction to pathology residency, scheduled at the first month of residency after the completion of the graduate medical education orientation week. Boot camp primarily involves didactics and hands-on, supervised learning sessions in the surgical pathology suite and the morgue for the autopsy portion of “boot camp”.

Yes. Residents are assigned a faculty mentor at the beginning of their training (PGY-1).

Yes, our residents have presented platform and poster presentations at USCAP and many other national conferences as well as produce research publications as part of interdisciplinary teams within Lifespan and Care New England Hospitals.  More information can be found in the resident's profiles.

Meet Our Residents

Yes, residents have an opportunity to be involved in one-on-one day-to-day teaching of medical students while on service or as Resident Directors of Medical Student Education overseeing their rotation as well as volunteering for leading small group histology lab for the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University during senior years of training.

PATHPrimer and ASCP Question Banks are given to residents, along with individual subscriptions to ExpertPath.

Yes, providing increasing levels of responsibility is one of the core educational objectives of the residency program.

Residents are fully-funded for away rotations, including audition rotations at potential fellowship programs. They are allotted one away rotation and, depending on the resident’s progress, up to two electives.

Residents may join ongoing projects together with faculty within the department or collaborate on interdepartmental projects within Lifespan and Care New England hospitals, or connect with researchers at Brown University for projects and funding opportunities.

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We have protected time for residents to attend lectures (didactics, unknowns, gross conferences, autopsy conferences, call conferences, and high-yield board study sessions).

Learn more about didactics

 Rhode Island is a unique and interesting place to live! 

Learn more about life in Rhode Island

Yes, Bright Horizon’s Children’s Center, an on-campus day care center, is available for residents.

Housing is available within 15 minutes of Rhode Island Hospital, from intercity lofts and apartment living in downtown Providence to suburban neighborhoods with single-family homes over the state line in Massachusetts.

Learn more about housing options

Medical scrubs are acceptable for all rotations, white coats and business attire for patient-facing, formal presentation events, or interviews are encouraged!

You may contact our program coordinator, Alisha Lima, by email at Alima3@Lifespan.org or by phone at 401-444-5057 and fax at 401-444-8514 or connect with our residents via their respective profile pages!