NEW ST106 The Visible Pathologist
8:00–11:30 am
3.0 CME CREDITS
Research shows that most physicians do not recognize the additional value pathologists can provide beyond delivering pathology reports and directing the laboratory. As these findings combine with emerging health care delivery models, it becomes imperative that pathologists go beyond their standard services and be recognized as physicians who are integral to health care systems and patient care teams. This session describes specific examples of services the anatomic pathologist can provide that will make them in-demand by patient care teams and health care systems: improved pathology reporting, tumor board leadership, and evidence-based guideline implementation. In this highly interactive session, participants will take away an action plan they can implement in their practices.
You will learn to:
- Identify services that anatomic pathologists can provide to improve patient care and their value to the health care team
- Identify potential barriers and solutions to providing the services
- Explain the skills needed to deliver new service opportunities
- Describe a process to identify the gap between current pathologist skills and those needed for new services and to identify learning opportunities to fill the gap
- Develop an action plan to introduce at least one new service to each participant’s practice setting within the next three months
Faculty
M. Elizabeth H. Hammond, MD, FCAP
Stephen P. Naber, MD, PhD, FCAP
Thomas M. Wheeler, MD, FCAP