Adequacy of Pathology Resident Training for Employment: A Survey Report from the Future of Pathology Task Group‪.‬

* Context.--The recent change in accreditation requirements for anatomic pathology and clinical pathology residency training from 5 to 4 years and the rapid advances in technologies for pathology services have sparked a renewed debate over the adequacy of pathology residency training. In particular, perceived deficiencies in training have been declared from a variety of sources, both in the form of recent editorial opinions and from surveys of community hospital pathologist employers in 1998, 2003, and 2005 by Dr Richard Horowitz. Objective.--To obtain more comprehensive data on the perceptions of strengths and weaknesses in pathology residency training.