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Updates
Annual Jobs Report
We have completed the annual Jobs report for 2020. For calendar year 2020, there were 763 job postings for full time or part time pathologists at PathologyOutlines.com, which form the basis for the statistics. This is a 9.7% decrease from the 845 ads posted in 2018 (click here), attributed to the marked drop in elective surgery from March to July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Case of the Month
Case #502 was posted on April 15. You can also sign up for our monthly case newsletters and more here.
Companion Diagnostics Chapter
We have removed the Companion Diagnostics chapter. Although well written, the topics had minimal traffic and the content frequently changes, so it is hard to keep them up to date. We have moved the most recently written topics to the Breast, CNS tumor, Lung and Ovary chapters.
Dr. Pernick’s Curing Cancer Essay Series
Elsevier Video on Clinic Review Articles
How it Started
Dr. Pernick had an interview in the April 2021 issue of The Pathologist about creating PathologyOutlines.com. Read about it here.
Image of the Week
Don't forget to check out the Image of the Week at the bottom of our homepage, with a new image selected by Dr. Pernick once a week.
Medical News Updates
New Editorial Board Appointments
Dr. Jonathan Zuckerman has been appointed to our Editorial Board to review topics in the Kidney nontumor (medical renal) chapter.
Dr. Andrey Bychkov has been appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief for our Thyroid & Parathyroid Glands and Special Projects.
Dr. Bonnie Choy has been appointed to our Editorial Board for GU Pathology.
Dr. Marc Pusztaszeri has been appointed to our Editorial Board for Head & Neck Pathology and Cytopathology.
New Grants Page
Pandemic Relief Music Award - April Winner
Record Traffic
In March 2021, we again had record traffic for total sessions (1,704,741), average sessions per day (54,992), page views (3,715,082) and users (566,344). Thanks for your support!
Website Redesign
For our 20th anniversary, we are studying a redesign emphasizing increased ease of use, most likely with more drop down menus and better search capability. We are also considering a worldwide directory of pathologists with headshots, favorite images and words of wisdom submitted by pathologists. Let us know what you think at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com.
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Micro Images of the Month
Here is a selection of new images from our free, online textbook:
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Acute inflammation / pus in renal calyx.
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Nuclear expression of TTF1 is ubiquitous.
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Thigh muscle from a 49 year old woman with progressive proximal weakness and creatine kinase in the 7,000s. Histology shows a pauci-inflammatory IMNM. The necrotic fibers are randomly distributed and temporally heterogeneous. There is also moderate fiber size variation and frequent internalized nuclei, suggesting that myofiber damage has been going on for a while (H&E, 20x).
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Topics Updated
Our editorial process has become much more involved over the past year. We now have more rigorous standards for topics. The topics are reviewed by our Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editors-in-Chief, then reviewed by a Subspecialty Editorial Board Member and again by the Author. Below are our Blog updates containing topics updated and images added to current topics.
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We have new books posted on our Books page:
Philip A. Dauterman
269 pages, $11, Self (2021)
How to be the Lab Director includes tutorials on: how to make a corrective action, requirements for proficiency testing, how to remediate proficiency testing failures, how to make a Plan of Correction (PoC), how to respond to CMS form 2567, how to put a new analyzer into service, how to do validation and verification, how to do quality assurance and root cause analysis, how to write a policy and / or procedure and how to respond to complaints and incident reports involving a lab. This book also includes easy to understand explanations of accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, proficiency testing, correlation, reference range (also called normal values), critical values (also called panic values), Limit of Detection (LoD), Limit of Quantitation (LoQ), ruggedness, robustness, linearity, Analytic Measurement Range (AMR), controls, calibration, false positive and false negative as applied to the clinical lab and diagnostic lab testing. You'll also receive information on how to start a new lab, how to verify a Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) or "off label" test, qualitative analyzer verification, how to make an Individualized Quality Control Plan (IQCP), how to perform voluntary closure of a laboratory. information on how to helm a hospital lab through a major disaster and information on Lab Director liability (malpractice) insurance, recommendations on how to validate microbiology organism identification and antibiotic sensitivity testing.The 2021 edition includes information on lab testing in the COVID pandemic including SARS-CoV-2 test verification, SARS-CoV-2 specimen handling and pooling, laboratory expansion to accommodate SARS-CoV-2 testing, etc.
To see more recent books posted, click here.
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