Advice for fellow older pathologists, who did not have a formal rotation in molecular pathology during training: You cant learn molecular pathology by the usual osmotic procedure of attending a lecture or reading a review article. You have to start with the basics. Read text, view diagrams, and look at YouTube videos. Read from multiple sources, then start over and do it all again, as many times as necessary until it sinks in. Look up any terms that you do not intimately understand. Do not gloss over the details. Its very time-consuming, but if you dont go through this process, it will never get beyond alphabet soup in your mind. I have read at least fifteen descriptions of comparative genomic hybridization this week in my spare time, and only after that do I really understand the technique. I went through a similar process with DNA sequencing several weeks back. Molecular pathology is very cool, and I think that if I were a path resident today, I would do a fellowship in that subspecialty. It is really analytic and so unlike the approach of conventional anatomic pathology, which, at its worst, is conceptually not much different from coin collecting.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:52:13 +0000
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