Gather resources, share knowledge, and help your residents start strong in their careers.

Resident Inspection Program

Pathology residents can volunteer to be part of CAP laboratory inspections. By doing so, they can gain insight into meeting regulatory requirements, build their pathology skills, see new laboratories, and meet pathologists outside their institutions, all while satisfying the residency milestone for Accreditation, Compliance, and Quality.

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Future Pathologist Champion

As a Future Pathologist Champion, reach medical students and inspire them to pursue pathology. Champions meet quarterly to share resources and ideas to support medical student exposure to pathology.

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CAP Foundation Grants & Awards

Pathology residents and medical students can apply for funding from the CAP Foundation to support pathology education, research, training, and travel.

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Pathology Informatics Essentials for Residents (PIER)

PIER is a research-based instructional resource that presents training topics, implementation strategies, and resource options for program directors and faculty to effectively provide informatics training to their residents and meet ACGME informatics milestone requirements.

PIER is developed by the Association for Academic Pathology, the Association for Pathology Informatics, and the CAP.

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Program Directors’ Toolbox

Elevate the effectiveness of your pathology program with resources to share knowledge and best practices in areas including:

  • Determining roles and responsibilities for program personnel
  • Building a program curriculum
  • Recruiting and interviewing residency candidates
  • Evaluating residents, fellows, and faculty
  • Building relations with ACGME and ABPath

The Program Directors’ Toolbox is a joint offering from the CAP and the Association for Academic Pathology.

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Graduate Medical Education Committee Publications

Since 2023, the CAP Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) has written several articles that provide valuable insight for academic pathology programs:

GMEC Publications

  1. Continued Positive Job Search Experience for New Pathologists Seeking First Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  2. Experiential Exposure as the Key to Recruiting Medical Students Into Pathology
  3. How Influential Are Medical School Curriculum and Other Medical School Characteristics in Students Selecting Pathology as a Specialty?
  4. Leadership Perspectives on Osteopathic Medical School Applicants to Pathology Residency Training

Publications From the Joint Association for Academic Pathology & CAP Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) in Pathology Residency Training Working Group

  1. Leveraging Faculty Development to Support Validation of Entrustable Professional Activities Assessment Tools in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Training
  2. National Pilot of Entrustable Professional Activities in Pathology Residency Training