Washington University-B-JH-SLCH Consortium Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a large, academically dominant AP/CP program embedded within Washington University School of Medicine and the Barnes-Jewish/St. Louis Children's Hospital consortium, handling roughly 55,000 surgical specimens annually with subspecialty sign-out alongside internationally recognized faculty in surgical pathology, neuropathology, and molecular medicine. Research is deeply woven into the program's identity, evidenced by a dedicated Physician-Scientist Training Program track, intradepartmental research funding up to $20,000, conference travel reimbursement for first-author presentations, and a resident roster heavily populated by MD/PhDs, T32 fellows, and postdoctoral researchers pursuing bench and translational work. The program explicitly supports dual career paths - training academic pathologists destined for faculty positions (many graduates become assistant professors at peer institutions) as well as those entering community or hospital-based practice - while offering advanced infrastructure including CAP/CLIA molecular labs, high-throughput automation, apheresis service, and a dedicated pathology informatics curriculum. The department values intellectual curiosity, self-directed investigative capability, and long-term mentorship relationships, particularly for residents pursuing subspecialty fellowship training (dermatopathology, hematopathology, neuropathology, transfusion medicine) immediately following residency.