How to Ace Your Pathology Residency Interview

It might as well be Disneyland

[DGlaucomflecken]

Thanks for watching. Don’t forget to subscribe. The autopsy can wait.

[claireshaner]

So funny! My husband is in med school and wants to be a pathologist. He is the only one in the pathology interest group so he's president of the group now.

[CScottyW]

I like to think that Marge is also a microscope

[jessicac.]

"It's an autopsy...the patient can wait!" LOL 😆 🤣

[drhandle]

I did my post-grad in a pathology department; the pathologists invariably said that what they really liked about it is that their patients are all dead. They were great people. (The pathologists; can't speak for the patients. They didn't say much.)

I have also been described as ridiculously over-protective of the microscopes at work, particularly Brutus (he's like me: he's old, he's built solid compared to younger models, he's been there in the lab forever, he's seen some sh!t, and a couple of people would like to dispose of him but the process would be extremely convoluted and expensive). He might be technologically ancient, but he's a damned fine instrument, he does a sterling job, and he evolved to go digital. (Oh, and in case you ever need to know, saying "You focus downwards like that with the Zeiss again without watching the objective, I will end you" is deemed inappropriate language in the workplace.)

[discogoth]

This is so funny and accurate. I job shadowed a surgical pathologist as a high school student and 5 years later, I think about this man on the regular. We looked at so many goddamn slides my head was about to explode, and I was this dumbass little 17 year old but he was just so jazzed to show me the ropes of surgical pathology. I learned more in that 2 day job shadow experience than I learned in my 6 week histology unit in high school anat&phys. We were looking for cancerous cells in a slide and he was visibly excited and relieved to find it totally normal and benign. He literally stood up and fist pumped the air in relief. I didn’t end up going the med school route but I think about him a lot as the kind of mentor and role model I want to be in my field. Pathologists are the best.

[TK-Reikon]

This hits so true it hurts. No one cared about my basophil finding ability. Or that I named them all Phil when I found one and kept the slide, thus my famous box of Phils.

[trachbeba]

I wonder how many med students irreversibly changed the course of their lives by choosing a field based off of your shorts 😁🔥

[fireshade]

Pathologists are really some of the happiest (and smartest) people in the hospital and I’m here for it

-Radiology resident

[blinknap]

Genuinely curious on what's a not-a-bad-boy stain. Gotta agree that something about congo red screams rebellious.

[CarolynFahm]

Pathology was my world, and Congo Red is what we call a special stain . . . and now a very humorous one. Thanks for showing the brighter side of pathology.

[devankumar]

Hey Dr. G, your videos have been massive for getting my mind off the stress of going through the med school application cycle right now. You’re awesome!

[khadijashaaban]

" after years of therapy everyone realized I wasn't a danger to anyone, I just wanted to be a pathologist" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[katejohnson]

Absolutely brilliant. I love how smoothly you can banter with yourself, it's really endearing.
By the way, congratulations on 106k members of the glaucflock! Bagawk!!

[ryancampbell]

As a pathologist this is pretty damn accurate, except for the autopsies, probably 95% of pathologists haven't done an autopsy since their 1st or 2nd year of residency. We mainly deal with pieces of live patients :). Favorite stain is a diff quik.

[lorenna]

I'm a pathology resident from Brazil and I love it. Dr G and his fascination with basophils!! Haha

[cmoneman]

Pathology Twitter is invariably the nicest place on Twitter... also, I remember when we first had pathology, realizing within a week that everyone was always in the reporting room with their eyeball attached to the eyepiece. There was no point checking their office or anything. 9 am? 12:15pm? 3 pm? The entire work day, they are glued to their microscopes

[derandi]

As someone who did his civil duty ( in Austria at age 18 we choose between that which can be at hospitals retirement homes etc for 9 months or military service after a physical and mental exam to determine if and how well we can perform in these fields on a scale 1-10) in a big hospital where my main job was in the postal service and delivery area (aka bringing everything to all stations that isn't medicine : vials, diapers, office supplies, the works) in other words i saw every last nook at cranny of that place. And honestly my favourite places to deliver to was pathology. The folks there are incredly chill as well. The patients can wait...

So i have some context for these. Not nearly as much as someone who actually practices this but this is alot of fun to watch.

But yeah i remember palliative care(they always had a assortment of chocolates), the older nurses in surgery and pathology most fondly.

Been a minute but your videos bring up a bit of nostalgia in that way for me.
Cheers!

[The_JLav]

This makes me want to work with these people! I love incredibly specific nerdy enthusiasm for incredibly specific facets of your field. Like how long I spent in college arguing with peers about where to hit the bar of a marimba or what systems of rhythm syllables are worth switching to from other systems.

[shittyschmidtty]

Currently interviewing for pathology residency... thank you so much for this, made my day. And Congo red? Excellent choice sir.