A 0.5 FCE practical hands-on training course taking place at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
You will spend 4 full days a week (8 hours per day) at the hospital.
You will initially be shadowing certified pathologist’s assistants (PAs) at workstations throughout the day. You will then have the opportunity to handle surgical specimens under supervision.
This course offers an approach to orientation, inking, cutting, handling, macroscopic description and processing of gynecologic, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, head and neck, breast and skin specimens.
You will also be exposed to the frozen section service with an opportunity to handle selected intraoperative consultation specimens.
This course will provide an emphasis on the importance of gross examination and section submission and how this provides the pathologist with important information pertinent to generating a complete pathology report that will subsequently affect the management plan.
