Every interview season we get a pack of candidates walk in like a United Nations assembly. Pathology is not a competive field, which allows random applicants to match every year. I’ve seen random foreign grads with 10+ years of internal medicine clinical and research experience in their own country come to the US only to switch to pathology in the US. I’ve seen people interview at my residency and fellowship who wouldn’t stand a chance if the field was competitive. One derm trained dermpath fellow once mentioned to me “Pathology is a dying field.” The oversupply of training spots has hurt the field unfortunately in different ways. This is where our leadership has failed us.having training programs exist that shouldn’t exist in the first place. They pump subpar graduates out into the workforce. There are programs out there where they only see one gallbladder in a day. These programs see less than 10-15,000 surgicals a year. I know there are weak training programs out there pumping out poor candidates. They wet their pants when they find out they filled. I’ve also seen programs rank all 50 positions so that they can fill in the match and don’t have to go through the hell of the Scramble or whatever it’s called now. Even worse is having residents gross biopsies in weekends. Residency programs depend on cheap labor to gross their specimens. On a positive note, if you aren’t able to secure a job in an area you desire, you can always move for your second job. You also may have to apply to 20-30 jobs and only get a few interviews. I know a guy who couldn’t move for family reasons but luckily secured a job. You may be able to secure a job near your hometown. I think medical students have to be warned. Whether these jobs are not advertised and filled by word of mouth I will never know. I’ve been looking at pathoutlines for the past 5-10 years and have only seen a handful of jobs near my hometown (large metropolitan city). You may have to move in order to secure a job. There is substantial negativity but there is some truth to what is being said. While past performance does not guarantee future results, students considering a career in pathology should be reassured that our compensation has exceeded the cost of living over the past 20 years.Ĭhair and Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicineīoston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center
View attachment 276160 View attachment 276160 The curve shows that pathology compensation increased twice as fast as the cost of living. Next, the annual cost of living increases were collected from the social security website: The 1999 compensation and social security were arbitrarily set to 100 to allow comparison of the changes. First the compensation for Assistant Professors in Pathology was collected from the AAMC salary survey for each year going back to 1999, using the 25th percentile as the starting salary. That conclusion is based on the following data. The short answer is that pathologists’ compensation increases have been much greater than the cost of living. If there has been an increase, has our pay kept up with inflation?
#PATHOLOGY SALARY PLUS#
You may wonder if compensation (salary plus bonuses) has increased over the past 20 years, given the substantial negativity on this forum. This information is for medical students considering pathology as a career.
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