ACGME: Dermatopathology
Program Number 1004821057
| Program Director: | Jon A. Reed, M.D. Professor |
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| Program Coordinator: | Yvetter Boney 713-798-5490 Phone 713-798-3665 Fax yboney@bcm.edu |
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| Contact Information: | Jon A. Reed, M.D. 713-798-4083 Phone yboney@bcm.edu |
Program Description
We offer a one-year accredited Dermatopathology fellowship sponsored jointly by the Departments of Pathology and Dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine. The fellowship is designed to provide intensive training in Dermatopathology for Board Certified or Board eligible graduates of Pathology or Dermatology programs. Experience in the techniques of immunohistochemistry, immunofluoresence, electron microscopy, as they pertain to Dermatopathology are provided. For Pathology trainees entering the program, mornings are spent signing out Dermatopathology cases, afternoons are spent in the dermatology clinics. For Dermatology trainees that are in the program, six months of training in anatomic pathology is incorporated into the year. The year is structured so that you can maintain continuity with the Dermatopathology service. The Baylor Dermatopathology Laboratory accessions specimens from over 7,000 patients a year. These are signed out by the Dermatopathology fellow and the attending Dermatopathologists. The fellow also has access to the Dermatopathology material from the four Baylor teaching hospitals within the Texas Medical Center area as well as from six community hospitals in the Houston and surrounding areas whose Pathology departments are run by full time Baylor Department of Pathology faculty members. The fellow will participate in consultations sent in from all of these hospitals and have ready access to all of the Dermatopathology related cases at these institutions.
These additional dermatopathology cases total over 10,000. Trainees having completed Pathology programs will be expected to attend and participate in all of the Dermatology conferences. Conversely, trainees coming out of Dermatology residency programs will be expected to attend relevant Department of Pathology conferences and selected Dermatology conferences. The fellow will present some didactic sessions, but this responsibility is not onerous. The fellow will be expected to participate in an investigative project which may be clinically-oriented or more basic research. There are numerous opportunities for research with any of the members of the departments of Pathology and Dermatology. The fellow will have the opportunity to participate in city-wide conferences in which both patients and interesting dermatopathologic cases are presented. Graduated responsibility in dermatopathology will be provided predominantly throughout the experience at Ben Taub General Hospital, part of the Harris County Hospital District. Some training in laboratory management is also provided.
Applicants for the Baylor College of Medicine fellowship in Dermatopathology must be board certified or eligible for certification in Anatomic Pathology, combined Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, or Dermatology.
Application Information
Jon A. Reed, M.D.
Director of Dermatopathology Fellowship Program
Department of Pathology
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-798-4083
Fax: 713-798-3665
E-mail: yboney@bcm.edu
Web site: http://www.bcm.edu/pathology