Welcome to our UConn Health Pathology Residency website.

Please take the time to review our departmental website, as well as requirements listed here regarding our residency program.

Overview

The UConn Health Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Residency Program is a four-year program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The program is approved for 8 residents and accepts two residents per year, with appointments beginning on July 1.

Under the leadership of Program Director Ga Hie Nam, MD, the curriculum emphasizes comprehensive training in both Anatomic and Clinical Pathology within a dynamic academic medical center.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine processes approximately 14,000 surgical pathology cases, 9,000 cytology specimens, and 20 hospital (medical) autopsies annually, in addition to performing approximately 2.5 million clinical laboratory tests across the divisions of clinical chemistry, hematology/coagulation, microbiology, and transfusion medicine, thereby providing comprehensive diagnostic services to UConn Health and affiliated healthcare partners.

In addition to their training at UConn Health, residents have the opportunity to rotate at affiliated institutions, including Pediatric Pathology at Hartford Hospital, Forensic Pathology at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (with exposure to approximately 3,000 medicolegal death investigations and autopsy cases annually), Molecular Pathology at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, and Transfusion Medicine and donor blood services at the American Red Cross. These experiences provide valuable exposure to diverse practice settings and specialized areas of pathology.

Residents participate in regularly scheduled didactics, journal clubs, grand rounds, autopsy, gross, frozen, consensus conferences, unknown slide conferences, multidisciplinary tumor boards, clinicopathologic conferences, and quality assurance/improvement activities.