Pathology is an appealing branch of medicine. Unfortunately, our university professors depend on subsidies they receive for training. As a consequence, they train many doctors for positions that do not exist. Academic pathologists behave like a religious cult in this respect. They know well that their residents cannot get jobs; however, they react by repeatedly issuing studies that claim there is a shortage of pathologists, while neglecting to acknowledge there is a shortage of positions. The main flaw of these studies is the false assumption that the productivity of today's average pathologist is the same as it was for those practicing 20 or 30 years ago. This is patently false; a single pathologist being forced into submisssion by today's lack of positions has to perform the work of several pathologists of the past or he loses his job. Resolution of this harmful initiative to encourage new candidates to enter the field of pathology will not come from academia which has every incentive to encourage to attract new students to the profession with little motivation to point out the lack of openings in the field. We practicing pathologists should unite and force academia and CAP to be truthful and stop this detrimental course, or we will all have to contend with an increasing supply of new pathologists competing for a declining market.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Too many trainees...not enough positions
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Mahud Ahud, MD from AlGarhoud
11 years ago
No good here
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Oana Radu
11 years ago
This is a very serious issue for existing pathologists and residents.
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Ruifeng Guo
11 years ago
CAP chooses to be selectively blind to the cruel truth for the pathology trainees. Now it's time to figut for us.
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DR
11 years ago
The new trainees are struggling to find a job. Even if we are well-trained, we are forced to do multiple fellowships in the hope that next year will be better. There is a lot of hype for 2020 being the year of demand. I really don't see it happening as years go by. CAP is our voice and its time they take some responsibility for our current job situation.
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Jeremy
11 years ago
Indeed
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John Cena
11 years ago
You can't see me...
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John Farve
11 years ago
Americans would probably not be very happy with the fact that foreign nationals with dubious credentials make up a very large proportion of practitioners of pathology.
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anonymous anonymous
11 years ago
This is absolute garbage
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Diping Wang
11 years ago
support!!!
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Jeff Yang
11 years ago
support
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Ningli Cheng
11 years ago
Not only fellows or graduates from residency also senior or experienced pathologists have been waiting for job opening.
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Bill Li
11 years ago
The data are very weak to show oversupply of pathologists
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Andy Ke
11 years ago
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with continuing cuts of reimbursement, less pathologists are needed for maintaining current level of income. Oversupply of graduating residents certainly will crank the job market of supply/demand.
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Fran Novak
11 years ago
Cannot agree more. We need to stop hyperinflation. Three hundred new pathologist per year sounds about right.
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Andrea chang
11 years ago
There s obvious oversupply of pathologist.
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Fernando Esclopis
11 years ago
Glutonous self-indulgent academics are on the wrong tract again.
CAP is betraying its' members
agree
Pathology is an appealing branch of medicine. Unfortunately, our university professors depend on subsidies they receive for training. As a consequence, they train many doctors for positions that do not exist. Academic pathologists behave like a religious cult in this respect. They know well that their residents cannot get jobs; however, they react by repeatedly issuing studies that claim there is a shortage of pathologists, while neglecting to acknowledge there is a shortage of positions. The main flaw of these studies is the false assumption that the productivity of today's average pathologist is the same as it was for those practicing 20 or 30 years ago. This is patently false; a single pathologist being forced into submisssion by today's lack of positions has to perform the work of several pathologists of the past or he loses his job. Resolution of this harmful initiative to encourage new candidates to enter the field of pathology will not come from academia which has every incentive to encourage to attract new students to the profession with little motivation to point out the lack of openings in the field. We practicing pathologists should unite and force academia and CAP to be truthful and stop this detrimental course, or we will all have to contend with an increasing supply of new pathologists competing for a declining market.
Too many trainees...not enough positions
No good here
This is a very serious issue for existing pathologists and residents.
CAP chooses to be selectively blind to the cruel truth for the pathology trainees. Now it's time to figut for us.
The new trainees are struggling to find a job. Even if we are well-trained, we are forced to do multiple fellowships in the hope that next year will be better. There is a lot of hype for 2020 being the year of demand. I really don't see it happening as years go by. CAP is our voice and its time they take some responsibility for our current job situation.
Indeed
You can't see me...
Americans would probably not be very happy with the fact that foreign nationals with dubious credentials make up a very large proportion of practitioners of pathology.
This is absolute garbage
support!!!
support
Not only fellows or graduates from residency also senior or experienced pathologists have been waiting for job opening.
The data are very weak to show oversupply of pathologists
with continuing cuts of reimbursement, less pathologists are needed for maintaining current level of income. Oversupply of graduating residents certainly will crank the job market of supply/demand.
Cannot agree more. We need to stop hyperinflation. Three hundred new pathologist per year sounds about right.
There s obvious oversupply of pathologist.
Glutonous self-indulgent academics are on the wrong tract again.