Regional Pathologists' Assistants Conference

This past weekend was the Regional Pathologists’ Assistants Conference hosted by UPMC at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh.  We were excused from class on Friday to attend so the majority of our class went.  I only attended Friday’s lectures which I found pretty interesting and useful.  There was a lecture on congenital melanocytic proliferation in children, grossing techniques for skins, cytogenetics, gross evaluation of colon cancers, an interesting case study, and the last was on pancreatic cancers. The second day one of our instructors Carrie presented on Uveal Melanoma and two second year students gave a lecture on Placenta Pathology.  The other second year students had posters prepared and hanging in the room on cases they had grossed during their rotations.  It was pretty neat to see where I will be this time next year in my training!  The conference was a great opportunity and we were lucky it was so close to Morgantown so we could all attend.

Last blog post I wrote about how we turned in our brackets for a little class competition fun!  Our winner was my classmate Stephanie!  She knows nothing about basketball so she copied Obama’s bracket and only switched two games and beat us all!

Well we have three weeks of classes left this semester!  It is a little crazy with our exam schedules but a break is so close and so needed!  This week we have Intro to Disease Mechanisms and Anatomical Techniques on the SAME DAY!  I think everyone in my class will agree that these are our two hardest classes so wish us luck!