San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium Program

Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical Analyst Verified · Dec 22, 2025

San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium Program

San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium Program is a residency program specializing in Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, located in JBSA Ft Sam Houston, Texas, directed by Robert O. Brady, MD and coordinated by Emma Llanas. and holds an accreditation status of Continued. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at [email protected] or (210) 292-7741. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.

Program Identity & Fit

This is a military (U.S. Army/U.S. Air Force joint) pathology residency at Brooke Army Medical Center, the largest and busiest teaching hospital in the DOD, processing over 25,000 specimens annually and uniquely co-located with the Burn Center/Institute of Surgical Research and the DOD's only Joint Cytopathology Fellowship. The program is explicitly structured around producing pathologists "ready for practice on day one" in any setting from large teaching hospitals to austere, one- or two-pathologist environments, reflecting its military operational mission rather than a purely academic subspecialization pipeline. With 29 of 31 faculty subspecialty-trained and a scholarly project required for graduation, research and fellowship pursuit are supported and encouraged but layered atop a core identity of building broadly competent generalist pathologists and future military laboratory leaders, including mandatory lab management training and leadership/QIPS roles. The program values graduated clinical autonomy, teaching responsibility from internship onward, and readiness for both diagnostic practice and military leadership across the Military Health System.

Who it fits

A military-affiliated applicant (active-duty Army or Air Force physician) seeking broad, high-volume anatomic/clinical pathology training with an eye toward eventual independent or solo-practice readiness, lab leadership responsibility, and possible subspecialty fellowship within the military health system.

Research intensity

Moderate - a scholarly project is a graduation requirement and infrastructure/mentorship for publication and conference presentation exists, but there is no dedicated research year and research is not positioned as the program's central identity.

Career orientation

Mixed - Fellowship, Community Practice, Academic Medicine (many graduates pursue subspecialty fellowships while the program explicitly prepares residents for independent practice in any size setting, including solo or remote military assignments, alongside leadership and teaching roles within the military health system).

Important

All applicants must be active duty members of the U.S. Military, and a categorical year in the specialty is required prior to entry.

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