Career Resources for New-in-Practice Pathologists

Now that you have found the bathrooms and identified the hospital coffee shops with the shortest lines, you are ready to focus on your real job, providing accurate and timely diagnoses for your patients. 

Establishing your practice in a new hospital can carry the same sense of excitement as being a new-kid on the block. Dr. Lauren King shares three tips for getting your name out in the hospital.

Finding a job is a daunting experience. Dr. Angie Foster shares her experience, insights, and tips on how to land your first pathology job.

Assimilating into any new professional environment brings its own unique set of challenges and opportunities. Below are some collected cautionary tales and accompanying lessons that a new-in-practice pathologist may want to keep in their back pocket.

Nicole Riddle, MD, FCAP, share tips for pathologists starting their new jobs, including preparing an elevator pitch, surviving orientation, and referencing a prior employer.

For pathologists to be effective in dotted-line leadership roles, they need to positively influence the work practices within the laboratory. The pathologist must be viewed as an approachable, knowledgeable, and helpful advocate for quality testing and employee and patient safety. 

Dr. Juanita Evans explains how taking stock of your priorities and your routine can reduce the stress and pressure that come with feeling unfocused.

New-in-practice pathologists need to know how to interview just as much to be interviewed. Dr. Roseann Wu give tips on how pathologists need to prepare to conduct a solid interview.

 Dr. Roseann Wu explains the importance of why new-in-practice pathologists need to be engaged with  state pathology societies and national organizations. 

Being a parent is hard work. Find out how one of our new-in-practice member's leverages a pathologist's favorable work-life balance to navigate the curves of parenthood. 

Dr. Juanita Evans explains how taking stock of your priorities and your routine can reduce the stress and pressure that come with feeling unfocused.

This New-in-Practice Committee article focuses on how millennial pathologists need to establish and cultivate professional relationships while being mindful of how some millennial traits may need to me tempered. 

We all make mistakes, but making a mistake as a new-in-practice pathologist is incredibly daunting and stressful. A new-in-practice pathologist shares their experience on finding a mistake and the steps taken to reconcile, learn, and move on from the oversight. 

For pathologists to be effective in dotted-line leadership roles, they need to positively influence the work practices within the laboratory. The pathologist must be viewed as an approachable, knowledgeable, and helpful advocate for quality testing and employee and patient safety. 

CAP member Dr. Lauren King shares four key things new-in-practice pathologists can use when supervising and teaching pathology residents.