Whether it’s in the lecture hall or the laboratory, as part of a clinical team or at the forefront of scientific exploration, learning is at the heart of an academic medical center.
The Department of Pathology utilizes innovative approaches of teaching and learning at all levels including undergraduate and masters students, medical students, residents and fellows, and physician-scientists.
Our Residency Program in anatomic and clinical pathology benefits from the interdisciplinary strengths of our teaching and research programs. Our Physician Scientist Training Program offers residents an opportunity to pursue post-doctoral training after core residency training.
Fellowship training is available in the following sub-specialties:
- Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine (Accepting applications for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021)
- Cytopathology (Accepting applications for 2020-2021)
- Hematopathology (Accepting applications for 2020-2021)
- Medical Microbiology (Accepting applications for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021)
- Molecular Genetic Pathology (Accepting applications for 2020-2021)
- Surgical Pathology (Accepting applications for 2021-2022)
- Gastrointestinal (GI) Emphasis (Accepting applications for 2021-2022)
Our pioneering learning tool, the Iowa Virtual Slidebox, has provided authoritative examples for teaching histology and histopathology, since the earliest days of the web.