Are you looking to get into the pathology residency program of your dreams? We’ve got you covered! Here, we’ll give you the inside scoop on which pathology programs have the highest and lowest publications, MD-PhDs, AOA, and Gold Humanism members among matched applicants. So, if you’re curious about pathology or have a specific program in mind, you can learn all the details you need to maximize your chances of becoming a pathologist.
Which Pathology Residency Programs Require the Most Research?
As discussed previously, matched pathology applicants have moderate amounts numbers of abstracts, presentations, and publications.
But how many publications are expected of each pathology residency? Here, we’ll discuss which programs have the most – and fewest – publications among their residents. That way, you can make an informed decision and feel hopeful about getting into the program that’s right for you.
Let’s look at which pathology residency programs have the most – and least – publications among their members. (NOTE: the data here report the Average number of peer-reviewed publications among matched applicants. This is more narrow – and restrictive – than the “abstracts, presentations, and publications,” measure found on ERAS and reported by the Charting Outcomes in the Match reports.)
| Residency program name | City | State | Average number of peer-reviewed publications among matched applicants | Average number of research experiences among matched applicants | # current residents who were graduates of joint MD-PhD program | % current residents who were graduates of MD-PhD programs | % matched applicants members of Alpha Omega Alpha (at the time of application) | % matched applicants members of Gold Humanism Honor Society (at the time of application) | Program curriculum includes a dedicated research rotation | % completed residents with non-academic U.S. practice career plans | % completed residents with plans to continue training in another program | % completed residents with plans to obtain a full-time or part-time academic position | % completed residents with other career plans | Total # Residents on Duty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program | Stanford | CA | 4 | 10 | 16 | 41% | 4 | 6 | OPT | 4 | 52 | 35 | 9 | 39 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Program | Boston | MA | 4 | 8 | 13 | 52% | 24 | 2 | OPT | 0 | 57 | 24 | 20 | 25 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital Program | Boston | MA | 4 | 8 | 14 | 39% | 9 | 4 | OPT | 4 | 64 | 8 | 24 | 36 |
| USA Health Program | Mobile | AL | 3 | 11 | 0% | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 67 | 0 | 33 | 13 | |
| UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 3 | 6 | 0% | 4 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 85 | 0 | 16 | 22 | |
| Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program | Torrance | CA | 3 | 6 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| University of California (San Francisco) Program | San Francisco | CA | 3 | 6 | 10 | 30% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 85 | 0 | 15 | 33 |
| University of Colorado Program | Aurora | CO | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12% | 3 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program | New Haven | CT | 3 | 6 | 2 | 6% | 0 | 2 | OPT | 0 | 68 | 0 | 31 | 33 |
| University of South Florida Morsani Program | Tampa | FL | 3 | 7 | 0% | 6 | 12 | OPT | 14 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Program | Chicago | IL | 3 | 5 | 2 | 8% | 13 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| University of Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 3 | 5 | 5 | 21% | 13 | 0 | OPT | 8 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Johns Hopkins University Program | Baltimore | MD | 3 | 7 | 8 | 23% | 16 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 81 | 19 | 0 | 35 |
| National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Program | Bethesda | MD | 3 | 15 | 0% | 7 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 67 | 0 | 33 | 9 | |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School Program | Boston | MA | 3 | 7 | 2 | 7% | 3 | 3 | OPT | 15 | 70 | 15 | 0 | 30 |
| University of Michigan Health System Program | Ann Arbor | MI | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14% | 19 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 67 | 17 | 17 | 28 |
| Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University Program | Detroit | MI | 3 | 16 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester) Program | Rochester | MN | 3 | 8 | 5 | 19% | 6 | 3 | OPT | 7 | 79 | 14 | 0 | 26 |
| University of Minnesota Program | Minneapolis | MN | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7% | 6 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 14 |
| Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium Program | St. Louis | MO | 3 | 8 | 9 | 24% | 6 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 73 | 5 | 23 | 38 |
| St Louis University School of Medicine Program | St Louis | MO | 3 | 3 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 88 | 0 | 13 | 11 | |
| University of New Mexico School of Medicine Program | Albuquerque | NM | 3 | 2 | 0% | 0 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) Program | New York | NY | 3 | 9 | 6 | 27% | 6 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 92 | 0 | 8 | 22 |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus) Program | New York | NY | 3 | 9 | 5 | 23% | 10 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 86 | 0 | 14 | 22 |
| Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program | Bronx | NY | 3 | 9 | 1 | 5% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 19 |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine Program | New York | NY | 3 | 5 | 0% | 10 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital Program | Stony Brook | NY | 3 | 5 | 0% | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Duke University Hospital Program | Durham | NC | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14% | 11 | 7 | OPT | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine Program | Cincinnati | OH | 3 | 6 | 2 | 17% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 40 | 0 | 60 | 12 |
| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH Program | Philadelphia | PA | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| University of Pennsylvania Health System Program | Philadelphia | PA | 3 | 7 | 9 | 27% | 11 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 59 | 0 | 41 | 33 |
| Brown University Program | Providence | RI | 3 | 5 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 75 | 25 | 0 | 16 | |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program | Nashville | TN | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12% | 15 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 94 | 6 | 0 | 25 |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 3 | 7 | 3 | 10% | 5 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 81 | 19 | 0 | 31 |
| University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals Program | Galveston | TX | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| University of Utah Health Program | Salt Lake City | UT | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10% | 4 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| University of Vermont Medical Center Program | Burlington | VT | 3 | 5 | 0% | 5 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Virginia Medical Center Program | Charlottesville | VA | 3 | 4 | 0% | 19 | 12 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| University of Washington Program | Seattle | WA | 3 | 6 | 7 | 26% | 14 | 0 | REQ | 7 | 86 | 7 | 0 | 27 |
| University of Alabama Medical Center Program | Birmingham | AL | 2 | 9 | 0% | 3 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 94 | 6 | 0 | 26 | |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Program | Tucson | AZ | 2 | 4 | 0% | 5 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 2 | 5 | 2 | 13% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 92 | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program | Loma Linda | CA | 2 | 22 | 0% | 5 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 2 | 9 | 1 | 4% | 3 | 7 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| University of California (San Diego) Medical Center Program | La Jolla | CA | 2 | 4 | 2 | 13% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| University of California (Irvine) Program | Orange | CA | 2 | 7 | 0% | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 71 | 0 | 29 | 15 | |
| George Washington University Program | Washington | DC | 2 | 6 | 1 | 8% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 57 | 43 | 0 | 13 |
| University of Miami/Jackson Health System Program | Miami | FL | 2 | 6 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 8 | 58 | 17 | 16 | 17 | |
| Emory University School of Medicine Program | Atlanta | GA | 2 | 5 | 0% | 5 | 0 | 29 | ||||||
| Rush University Medical Center Program | Chicago | IL | 2 | 3 | 0% | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 2 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Loyola University Medical Center Program | Maywood | IL | 2 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Chicago (NorthShore) Program | Evanston | IL | 2 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 14 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Indiana University School of Medicine Program | Indianapolis | IN | 2 | 5 | 0% | 4 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Program | Iowa City | IA | 2 | 9 | 1 | 5% | 4 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 20 |
| University of Kansas School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | KS | 2 | 4 | 0% | 5 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Kentucky College of Medicine Program | Lexington | KY | 2 | 9 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Tulane University Program | New Orleans | LA | 2 | 5 | 0% | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Louisiana State University (Shreveport) Program | Shreveport | LA | 2 | 3 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| University of Maryland Program | Baltimore | MD | 2 | 2 | 0% | 11 | 11 | OPT | 0 | 88 | 13 | 0 | 16 | |
| Boston University Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 2 | 12 | 0% | 0 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| UMass Chan Medical School Program | Worcester | MA | 2 | 8 | 0% | 0 | 10 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Henry Ford Hospital Program | Detroit | MI | 2 | 5 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Beaumont Health (Royal Oak) Program | Royal Oak | MI | 2 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center Program | Jackson | MS | 2 | 3 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 40 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Program | Omaha | NE | 2 | 4 | 2 | 15% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program | Lebanon | NH | 2 | 6 | 0% | 6 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Westchester Medical Center Program | Valhalla | NY | 2 | 12 | 0% | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Albany Medical Center Program | Albany | NY | 2 | 8 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program | Greenvale | NY | 2 | 5 | 0% | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Mount Sinai Hospital) Program | New York | NY | 2 | 7 | 3 | 13% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 55 | 9 | 36 | 23 |
| SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Program | Brooklyn | NY | 2 | 6 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| University of Rochester Program | Rochester | NY | 2 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 10 | 0 | 19 | |
| SUNY Upstate Medical University Program | Syracuse | NY | 2 | 5 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| University of North Carolina Hospitals Program | Chapel Hill | NC | 2 | 4 | 0% | 10 | 10 | OPT | 11 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wake Forest University School of Medicine Program | Winston-Salem | NC | 2 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 18 | |
| Vidant Medical Center/East Carolina University Program | Greenville | NC | 2 | 12 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program | Cleveland | OH | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 93 | 0 | 7 | 28 |
| Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Program | Cleveland | OH | 2 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 8 | 31 | 0 | 62 | 24 | |
| Ohio State University Hospital Program | Columbus | OH | 2 | 6 | 0% | 0 | 15 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Oregon Health & Science University Program | Portland | OR | 2 | 5 | 0% | 6 | 13 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center Program | Hershey | PA | 2 | 9 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 16 | |
| UPMC Medical Education Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12% | 6 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 75 | 25 | 0 | 25 |
| Medical University of South Carolina Program | Charleston | SC | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5% | 4 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 82 | 0 | 18 | 20 |
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Program | Houston | TX | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4% | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Baylor University Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 2 | 5 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 89 | 0 | 11 | 17 | |
| University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine Program | San Antonio | TX | 2 | 7 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Methodist Hospital (Houston) Program | Houston | TX | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4% | 7 | 15 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Baylor College of Medicine Program | Houston | TX | 2 | 6 | 0% | 3 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Program | Madison | WI | 2 | 7 | 0% | 4 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| UMass Chan - Baystate Program | Springfield | MA | 1 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| University at Buffalo Program | Buffalo | NY | 1 | 9 | 0% | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Morningside/West) Program | New York | NY | 1 | 6 | 0% | 0 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 9 | 0 | 20 | |
| Temple University Hospital Program | Philadelphia | PA | 1 | 3 | 0% | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Brookwood Baptist Health Program | Birmingham | AL | 0% | OPT | 25 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Program | Little Rock | AR | 0% | OPT | 0 | 50 | 0 | 51 | 18 | |||||
| University of California Davis Health Program | Sacramento | CA | 1 | 8% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ||||
| Naval Medical Center (San Diego) Program | San Diego | CA | 0% | 4 | ||||||||||
| Centura Health Corporation Program | Colorado Springs | CO | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Danbury Hospital Program | Danbury | CT | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Hartford Hospital Program | Hartford | CT | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| MedStar Health/Georgetown University Hospital Program | Washington | DC | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| Howard University Program | Washington | DC | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| National Capital Consortium Program | Bethesda | MD | 0% | OPT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 18 | |||||
| HCA Healthcare: East Florida Division GME Program | Plantation | FL | 0% | OPT | 2 | |||||||||
| HCA Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME: Brandon Regional Hospital Program | Brandon | FL | 0% | REQ | 8 | |||||||||
| Orlando Health Program | Orlando | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| University of Florida Program | Gainesville | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 15 | |||||
| University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program | Jacksonville | FL | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Program | Miami Beach | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Medical College of Georgia Program | Augusta | GA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| University of Hawaii Program | Honolulu | HI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 43 | 0 | 57 | 8 | |||||
| University of Louisville School of Medicine Program | Louisville | KY | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Louisiana State University Program | New Orleans | LA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| Tufts Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 8 | |||||
| Ascension St John Hospital Program | Detroit | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| University of Missouri-Columbia Program | Columbia | MO | 0% | OPT | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | MO | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Creighton University School of Medicine (Omaha) Program | Omaha | NE | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program | New Brunswick | NJ | 1 | 10% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||
| Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical School Program | Newark | NJ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Rutgers Health/Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Program | Livingston | NJ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 57 | 0 | 43 | 16 | |||||
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Staten Island University Hospital Program | Staten Island | NY | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill Hospital Program | New York | NY | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| NYU Long Island School of Medicine Program | Mineola | NY | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Summa Health System/NEOMED Program | Akron | OH | 0% | OPT | 0 | 80 | 0 | 20 | 7 | |||||
| The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University Program | Cleveland | OH | 0% | OPT | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| University of Toledo Program | Toledo | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Program | Oklahoma City | OK | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Geisinger Health System Program | Danville | PA | 0% | REQ | 7 | |||||||||
| Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 80 | 0 | 20 | 7 | |||||
| Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium (AGH) Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 75 | 0 | 25 | 13 | |||||
| University of Puerto Rico Program | San Juan | PR | 0% | OPT | 40 | 40 | 0 | 20 | 10 | |||||
| University of South Dakota Program | Sioux Falls | SD | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville Program | Knoxville | TN | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| University of Tennessee Program | Memphis | TN | 0% | NA | 0 | 86 | 0 | 14 | 13 | |||||
| East Tennessee State University/Quillen College of Medicine Program | Johnson City | TN | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Texas Tech University HSC El Paso Program | El Paso | TX | #DIV/0! | OPT | 0 | |||||||||
| University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Program | Austin | TX | #DIV/0! | OPT | 0 | |||||||||
| San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium Program | JBSA-Fort Sam Houston | TX | 0% | 17 | ||||||||||
| Texas A&M College of Medicine-Scott and White Medical Center (Temple) Program | Temple | TX | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Program | Richmond | VA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||||
| Madigan Army Medical Center Program | Tacoma | WA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 6 | |||||
| West Virginia University Program | Morgantown | WV | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program | Milwaukee | WI | 1 | 6% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
What Are the Most Research-Heavy Pathology Programs?
Here are the pathology programs with the highest average publications among matched applicants:
- Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program (4 publications on average)
- Massachusetts General Hospital Program (4)
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital Program (4)
- 34 programs with 3 publications on average
What Are the Least Research-Heavy Pathology Programs?
Here are the pathology programs with the lowest average publications among matched applicants:
- Temple University Hospital Program (one average publication)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Morningside/West) Program (one average publication)
- UMass Chan – Baystate Program (one average publication)
- University at Buffalo Program (one average publication)
Which Pathology Residency Programs Have the Most MD-PhDs?
Are you hoping to get into a pathology residency program? Having an MD-PhD may help you stand out, but it’s not always necessary.
As noted previously, having an MD-PhD is associated with an increased likelihood of matching into pathology as a specialty. Note that this is a relatively small advantage (~2% match rate increase for those with a PhD vs. those without).
Check out this list of pathology residency programs in the US and their MD-PhD percentages.
| Residency program name | City | State | % current residents who were graduates of MD-PhD programs | # current residents who were graduates of joint MD-PhD program | Average number of peer-reviewed publications among matched applicants | Average number of research experiences among matched applicants | % matched applicants members of Alpha Omega Alpha (at the time of application) | % matched applicants members of Gold Humanism Honor Society (at the time of application) | Program curriculum includes a dedicated research rotation | % completed residents with non-academic U.S. practice career plans | % completed residents with plans to continue training in another program | % completed residents with plans to obtain a full-time or part-time academic position | % completed residents with other career plans | Total # Residents on Duty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts General Hospital Program | Boston | MA | 52% | 13 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 2 | OPT | 0 | 57 | 24 | 20 | 25 |
| Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program | Stanford | CA | 41% | 16 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 6 | OPT | 4 | 52 | 35 | 9 | 39 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital Program | Boston | MA | 39% | 14 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 4 | OPT | 4 | 64 | 8 | 24 | 36 |
| University of California (San Francisco) Program | San Francisco | CA | 30% | 10 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 85 | 0 | 15 | 33 |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) Program | New York | NY | 27% | 6 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 92 | 0 | 8 | 22 |
| University of Pennsylvania Health System Program | Philadelphia | PA | 27% | 9 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 59 | 0 | 41 | 33 |
| University of Washington Program | Seattle | WA | 26% | 7 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 0 | REQ | 7 | 86 | 7 | 0 | 27 |
| Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium Program | St. Louis | MO | 24% | 9 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 73 | 5 | 23 | 38 |
| Johns Hopkins University Program | Baltimore | MD | 23% | 8 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 81 | 19 | 0 | 35 |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus) Program | New York | NY | 23% | 5 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 86 | 0 | 14 | 22 |
| University of Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 21% | 5 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 0 | OPT | 8 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester) Program | Rochester | MN | 19% | 5 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 3 | OPT | 7 | 79 | 14 | 0 | 26 |
| University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine Program | Cincinnati | OH | 17% | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 40 | 0 | 60 | 12 |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Program | Omaha | NE | 15% | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| University of Michigan Health System Program | Ann Arbor | MI | 14% | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 67 | 17 | 17 | 28 |
| Duke University Hospital Program | Durham | NC | 14% | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 7 | OPT | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 13% | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 92 | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| University of California (San Diego) Medical Center Program | La Jolla | CA | 13% | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Mount Sinai Hospital) Program | New York | NY | 13% | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 55 | 9 | 36 | 23 |
| University of Colorado Program | Aurora | CO | 12% | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| UPMC Medical Education Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 12% | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 75 | 25 | 0 | 25 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program | Nashville | TN | 12% | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 94 | 6 | 0 | 25 |
| Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program | New Brunswick | NJ | 10% | 1 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||
| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH Program | Philadelphia | PA | 10% | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 10% | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 81 | 19 | 0 | 31 |
| University of Utah Health Program | Salt Lake City | UT | 10% | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| University of California Davis Health Program | Sacramento | CA | 8% | 1 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ||||
| George Washington University Program | Washington | DC | 8% | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 57 | 43 | 0 | 13 |
| McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Program | Chicago | IL | 8% | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School Program | Boston | MA | 7% | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | OPT | 15 | 70 | 15 | 0 | 30 |
| University of Minnesota Program | Minneapolis | MN | 7% | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 14 |
| Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program | New Haven | CT | 6% | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | OPT | 0 | 68 | 0 | 31 | 33 |
| Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program | Milwaukee | WI | 6% | 1 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||||
| University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Program | Iowa City | IA | 5% | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 20 |
| Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program | Bronx | NY | 5% | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 19 |
| Medical University of South Carolina Program | Charleston | SC | 5% | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 82 | 0 | 18 | 20 |
| University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals Program | Galveston | TX | 5% | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 4% | 1 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 7 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program | Cleveland | OH | 4% | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 93 | 0 | 7 | 28 |
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Program | Houston | TX | 4% | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Methodist Hospital (Houston) Program | Houston | TX | 4% | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 15 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Texas Tech University HSC El Paso Program | El Paso | TX | 0% | OPT | 0 | |||||||||
| University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Program | Austin | TX | 0% | OPT | 0 | |||||||||
| USA Health Program | Mobile | AL | 0% | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 67 | 0 | 33 | 13 | |
| Brookwood Baptist Health Program | Birmingham | AL | 0% | OPT | 25 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| University of Alabama Medical Center Program | Birmingham | AL | 0% | 2 | 9 | 3 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 94 | 6 | 0 | 26 | |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Program | Tucson | AZ | 0% | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Program | Little Rock | AR | 0% | OPT | 0 | 50 | 0 | 51 | 18 | |||||
| UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 0% | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 85 | 0 | 16 | 22 | |
| Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program | Torrance | CA | 0% | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Naval Medical Center (San Diego) Program | San Diego | CA | 0% | 4 | ||||||||||
| Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program | Loma Linda | CA | 0% | 2 | 22 | 5 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| University of California (Irvine) Program | Orange | CA | 0% | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 71 | 0 | 29 | 15 | |
| Centura Health Corporation Program | Colorado Springs | CO | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Danbury Hospital Program | Danbury | CT | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Hartford Hospital Program | Hartford | CT | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| MedStar Health/Georgetown University Hospital Program | Washington | DC | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| Howard University Program | Washington | DC | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| National Capital Consortium Program | Bethesda | MD | 0% | OPT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 18 | |||||
| HCA Healthcare: East Florida Division GME Program | Plantation | FL | 0% | OPT | 2 | |||||||||
| HCA Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME: Brandon Regional Hospital Program | Brandon | FL | 0% | REQ | 8 | |||||||||
| Orlando Health Program | Orlando | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| University of Florida Program | Gainesville | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 15 | |||||
| University of Miami/Jackson Health System Program | Miami | FL | 0% | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 8 | 58 | 17 | 16 | 17 | |
| University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program | Jacksonville | FL | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Program | Miami Beach | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| University of South Florida Morsani Program | Tampa | FL | 0% | 3 | 7 | 6 | 12 | OPT | 14 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Emory University School of Medicine Program | Atlanta | GA | 0% | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 29 | ||||||
| Medical College of Georgia Program | Augusta | GA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| University of Hawaii Program | Honolulu | HI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 43 | 0 | 57 | 8 | |||||
| Rush University Medical Center Program | Chicago | IL | 0% | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 0% | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Loyola University Medical Center Program | Maywood | IL | 0% | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Chicago (NorthShore) Program | Evanston | IL | 0% | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 14 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Indiana University School of Medicine Program | Indianapolis | IN | 0% | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| University of Kansas School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | KS | 0% | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Kentucky College of Medicine Program | Lexington | KY | 0% | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| University of Louisville School of Medicine Program | Louisville | KY | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Tulane University Program | New Orleans | LA | 0% | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Louisiana State University Program | New Orleans | LA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| Louisiana State University (Shreveport) Program | Shreveport | LA | 0% | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Program | Bethesda | MD | 0% | 3 | 15 | 7 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 67 | 0 | 33 | 9 | |
| University of Maryland Program | Baltimore | MD | 0% | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | OPT | 0 | 88 | 13 | 0 | 16 | |
| Boston University Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 0% | 2 | 12 | 0 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Tufts Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 8 | |||||
| UMass Chan Medical School Program | Worcester | MA | 0% | 2 | 8 | 0 | 10 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| UMass Chan - Baystate Program | Springfield | MA | 0% | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Henry Ford Hospital Program | Detroit | MI | 0% | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Ascension St John Hospital Program | Detroit | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University Program | Detroit | MI | 0% | 3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Beaumont Health (Royal Oak) Program | Royal Oak | MI | 0% | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center Program | Jackson | MS | 0% | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 40 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Missouri-Columbia Program | Columbia | MO | 0% | OPT | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| St Louis University School of Medicine Program | St Louis | MO | 0% | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 88 | 0 | 13 | 11 | |
| University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | MO | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Creighton University School of Medicine (Omaha) Program | Omaha | NE | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program | Lebanon | NH | 0% | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical School Program | Newark | NJ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Rutgers Health/Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Program | Livingston | NJ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 57 | 0 | 43 | 16 | |||||
| University of New Mexico School of Medicine Program | Albuquerque | NM | 0% | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Staten Island University Hospital Program | Staten Island | NY | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill Hospital Program | New York | NY | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Westchester Medical Center Program | Valhalla | NY | 0% | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| NYU Long Island School of Medicine Program | Mineola | NY | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Albany Medical Center Program | Albany | NY | 0% | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| University at Buffalo Program | Buffalo | NY | 0% | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program | Greenvale | NY | 0% | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine Program | New York | NY | 0% | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Program | Brooklyn | NY | 0% | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| University of Rochester Program | Rochester | NY | 0% | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 10 | 0 | 19 | |
| SUNY Upstate Medical University Program | Syracuse | NY | 0% | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital Program | Stony Brook | NY | 0% | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Morningside/West) Program | New York | NY | 0% | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 9 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of North Carolina Hospitals Program | Chapel Hill | NC | 0% | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | OPT | 11 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wake Forest University School of Medicine Program | Winston-Salem | NC | 0% | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 18 | |
| Vidant Medical Center/East Carolina University Program | Greenville | NC | 0% | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Summa Health System/NEOMED Program | Akron | OH | 0% | OPT | 0 | 80 | 0 | 20 | 7 | |||||
| The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University Program | Cleveland | OH | 0% | OPT | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| University of Toledo Program | Toledo | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Program | Cleveland | OH | 0% | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 8 | 31 | 0 | 62 | 24 | |
| Ohio State University Hospital Program | Columbus | OH | 0% | 2 | 6 | 0 | 15 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Program | Oklahoma City | OK | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Oregon Health & Science University Program | Portland | OR | 0% | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Geisinger Health System Program | Danville | PA | 0% | REQ | 7 | |||||||||
| Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center Program | Hershey | PA | 0% | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 16 | |
| Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 80 | 0 | 20 | 7 | |||||
| Temple University Hospital Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium (AGH) Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 75 | 0 | 25 | 13 | |||||
| University of Puerto Rico Program | San Juan | PR | 0% | OPT | 40 | 40 | 0 | 20 | 10 | |||||
| Brown University Program | Providence | RI | 0% | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 75 | 25 | 0 | 16 | |
| University of South Dakota Program | Sioux Falls | SD | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville Program | Knoxville | TN | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| University of Tennessee Program | Memphis | TN | 0% | NA | 0 | 86 | 0 | 14 | 13 | |||||
| East Tennessee State University/Quillen College of Medicine Program | Johnson City | TN | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium Program | JBSA-Fort Sam Houston | TX | 0% | 17 | ||||||||||
| Baylor University Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 0% | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 89 | 0 | 11 | 17 | |
| Texas A&M College of Medicine-Scott and White Medical Center (Temple) Program | Temple | TX | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine Program | San Antonio | TX | 0% | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Baylor College of Medicine Program | Houston | TX | 0% | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| University of Vermont Medical Center Program | Burlington | VT | 0% | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Virginia Medical Center Program | Charlottesville | VA | 0% | 3 | 4 | 19 | 12 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Program | Richmond | VA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||||
| Madigan Army Medical Center Program | Tacoma | WA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 6 | |||||
| West Virginia University Program | Morgantown | WV | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Program | Madison | WI | 0% | 2 | 7 | 4 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
Pathology Programs with the Highest Percentage of MD-PhDs
Here are the pathology programs with the highest reported % of residents who were graduates of MD-PhD programs:
- Massachusetts General Hospital Program (52%)
- Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program (41%)
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital Program (39%)
- University of California (San Francisco) Program (30%)
- New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) Program (27%)
- University of Pennsylvania Health System Program (27%)
- University of Washington Program (26%)
Pathology Programs with the Lowest Percentage of MD-PhDs
While having an MD-PhD can give you a leg up on matching into pathology, note that there are many programs without an MD-PhD among their residents. In fact, there were only 41 (28%) programs that reported having any graduates from MD-PhD programs.
Which Pathology Programs Have the Most AOA and Gold Humanism Honor Society Members?
Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) and Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) memberships are two important factors in the pathology residency matching process. AOA recognizes students and residents who excel academically, in leadership, and in professionalism, while GHHS recognizes individuals who demonstrate exceptional qualities in patient-centered care and humanism.
As noted before, AOA membership is associated with a slightly increased likelihood of matching into pathology.
Here we list the US pathology residency programs and the % of their residents who were AOA or GHHS members. Note you can search for individual programs, sort the data, and many other useful things in your pathology residency search.
| Residency program name | City | State | % matched applicants members of Alpha Omega Alpha (at the time of application) | % matched applicants members of Gold Humanism Honor Society (at the time of application) | # current residents who were graduates of joint MD-PhD program | % current residents who were graduates of MD-PhD programs | Average number of peer-reviewed publications among matched applicants | Average number of research experiences among matched applicants | Program curriculum includes a dedicated research rotation | % completed residents with non-academic U.S. practice career plans | % completed residents with plans to continue training in another program | % completed residents with plans to obtain a full-time or part-time academic position | % completed residents with other career plans | Total # Residents on Duty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts General Hospital Program | Boston | MA | 24 | 2 | 13 | 52% | 4 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 57 | 24 | 20 | 25 |
| University of Michigan Health System Program | Ann Arbor | MI | 19 | 5 | 4 | 14% | 3 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 67 | 17 | 17 | 28 |
| University of Virginia Medical Center Program | Charlottesville | VA | 19 | 12 | 0% | 3 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| Johns Hopkins University Program | Baltimore | MD | 16 | 6 | 8 | 23% | 3 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 81 | 19 | 0 | 35 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program | Nashville | TN | 15 | 0 | 3 | 12% | 3 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 94 | 6 | 0 | 25 |
| University of Washington Program | Seattle | WA | 14 | 0 | 7 | 26% | 3 | 6 | REQ | 7 | 86 | 7 | 0 | 27 |
| McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Program | Chicago | IL | 13 | 0 | 2 | 8% | 3 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| University of Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 13 | 0 | 5 | 21% | 3 | 5 | OPT | 8 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| University of Maryland Program | Baltimore | MD | 11 | 11 | 0% | 2 | 2 | OPT | 0 | 88 | 13 | 0 | 16 | |
| Duke University Hospital Program | Durham | NC | 11 | 7 | 3 | 14% | 3 | 4 | OPT | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| University of Pennsylvania Health System Program | Philadelphia | PA | 11 | 4 | 9 | 27% | 3 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 59 | 0 | 41 | 33 |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus) Program | New York | NY | 10 | 3 | 5 | 23% | 3 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 86 | 0 | 14 | 22 |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine Program | New York | NY | 10 | 3 | 0% | 3 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| University of North Carolina Hospitals Program | Chapel Hill | NC | 10 | 10 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 11 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital Program | Boston | MA | 9 | 4 | 14 | 39% | 4 | 8 | OPT | 4 | 64 | 8 | 24 | 36 |
| National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Program | Bethesda | MD | 7 | 0 | 0% | 3 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 67 | 0 | 33 | 9 | |
| Methodist Hospital (Houston) Program | Houston | TX | 7 | 15 | 1 | 4% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| University of South Florida Morsani Program | Tampa | FL | 6 | 12 | 0% | 3 | 7 | OPT | 14 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester) Program | Rochester | MN | 6 | 3 | 5 | 19% | 3 | 8 | OPT | 7 | 79 | 14 | 0 | 26 |
| University of Minnesota Program | Minneapolis | MN | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7% | 3 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 14 |
| Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium Program | St. Louis | MO | 6 | 4 | 9 | 24% | 3 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 73 | 5 | 23 | 38 |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program | Lebanon | NH | 6 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 6 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) Program | New York | NY | 6 | 0 | 6 | 27% | 3 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 92 | 0 | 8 | 22 |
| Oregon Health & Science University Program | Portland | OR | 6 | 13 | 0% | 2 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| UPMC Medical Education Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 6 | 0 | 3 | 12% | 2 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 75 | 25 | 0 | 25 |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Program | Tucson | AZ | 5 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program | Loma Linda | CA | 5 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 22 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Emory University School of Medicine Program | Atlanta | GA | 5 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 5 | 29 | ||||||
| University of Kansas School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | KS | 5 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 5 | 8 | 3 | 10% | 3 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 81 | 19 | 0 | 31 |
| University of Vermont Medical Center Program | Burlington | VT | 5 | 11 | 0% | 3 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 4 | 7 | 0% | 3 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 85 | 0 | 16 | 22 | |
| Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program | Stanford | CA | 4 | 6 | 16 | 41% | 4 | 10 | OPT | 4 | 52 | 35 | 9 | 39 |
| Indiana University School of Medicine Program | Indianapolis | IN | 4 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Program | Iowa City | IA | 4 | 7 | 1 | 5% | 2 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 20 |
| Medical University of South Carolina Program | Charleston | SC | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5% | 2 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 82 | 0 | 18 | 20 |
| University of Utah Health Program | Salt Lake City | UT | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10% | 3 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Program | Madison | WI | 4 | 7 | 0% | 2 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| University of Alabama Medical Center Program | Birmingham | AL | 3 | 6 | 0% | 2 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 94 | 6 | 0 | 26 | |
| University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4% | 2 | 9 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| University of Colorado Program | Aurora | CO | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12% | 3 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School Program | Boston | MA | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7% | 3 | 7 | OPT | 15 | 70 | 15 | 0 | 30 |
| Baylor College of Medicine Program | Houston | TX | 3 | 3 | 0% | 2 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| USA Health Program | Mobile | AL | 0 | 0 | 0% | 3 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 67 | 0 | 33 | 13 | |
| Brookwood Baptist Health Program | Birmingham | AL | 0% | OPT | 25 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Program | Little Rock | AR | 0% | OPT | 0 | 50 | 0 | 51 | 18 | |||||
| University of California Davis Health Program | Sacramento | CA | 1 | 8% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ||||
| Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program | Torrance | CA | 0 | 0 | 0% | 3 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Naval Medical Center (San Diego) Program | San Diego | CA | 0% | 4 | ||||||||||
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13% | 2 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 92 | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| University of California (San Diego) Medical Center Program | La Jolla | CA | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| University of California (San Francisco) Program | San Francisco | CA | 0 | 0 | 10 | 30% | 3 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 85 | 0 | 15 | 33 |
| University of California (Irvine) Program | Orange | CA | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 71 | 0 | 29 | 15 | |
| Centura Health Corporation Program | Colorado Springs | CO | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Danbury Hospital Program | Danbury | CT | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Hartford Hospital Program | Hartford | CT | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program | New Haven | CT | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6% | 3 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 68 | 0 | 31 | 33 |
| MedStar Health/Georgetown University Hospital Program | Washington | DC | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| Howard University Program | Washington | DC | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| National Capital Consortium Program | Bethesda | MD | 0% | OPT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 18 | |||||
| George Washington University Program | Washington | DC | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8% | 2 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 57 | 43 | 0 | 13 |
| HCA Healthcare: East Florida Division GME Program | Plantation | FL | 0% | OPT | 2 | |||||||||
| HCA Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME: Brandon Regional Hospital Program | Brandon | FL | 0% | REQ | 8 | |||||||||
| Orlando Health Program | Orlando | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| University of Florida Program | Gainesville | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 15 | |||||
| University of Miami/Jackson Health System Program | Miami | FL | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 6 | OPT | 8 | 58 | 17 | 16 | 17 | |
| University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program | Jacksonville | FL | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Program | Miami Beach | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Medical College of Georgia Program | Augusta | GA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| University of Hawaii Program | Honolulu | HI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 43 | 0 | 57 | 8 | |||||
| Rush University Medical Center Program | Chicago | IL | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 3 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 0 | 5 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Loyola University Medical Center Program | Maywood | IL | 0 | 5 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Chicago (NorthShore) Program | Evanston | IL | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 14 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| University of Kentucky College of Medicine Program | Lexington | KY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| University of Louisville School of Medicine Program | Louisville | KY | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Tulane University Program | New Orleans | LA | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Louisiana State University Program | New Orleans | LA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| Louisiana State University (Shreveport) Program | Shreveport | LA | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Boston University Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 0 | 8 | 0% | 2 | 12 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Tufts Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 8 | |||||
| UMass Chan Medical School Program | Worcester | MA | 0 | 10 | 0% | 2 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| UMass Chan - Baystate Program | Springfield | MA | 0 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Henry Ford Hospital Program | Detroit | MI | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Ascension St John Hospital Program | Detroit | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University Program | Detroit | MI | 0 | 0 | 0% | 3 | 16 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Beaumont Health (Royal Oak) Program | Royal Oak | MI | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center Program | Jackson | MS | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 3 | OPT | 40 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Missouri-Columbia Program | Columbia | MO | 0% | OPT | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| St Louis University School of Medicine Program | St Louis | MO | 0 | 0 | 0% | 3 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 88 | 0 | 13 | 11 | |
| University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | MO | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Creighton University School of Medicine (Omaha) Program | Omaha | NE | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Program | Omaha | NE | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program | New Brunswick | NJ | 1 | 10% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||
| Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical School Program | Newark | NJ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Rutgers Health/Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Program | Livingston | NJ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 57 | 0 | 43 | 16 | |||||
| University of New Mexico School of Medicine Program | Albuquerque | NM | 0 | 5 | 0% | 3 | 2 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Staten Island University Hospital Program | Staten Island | NY | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill Hospital Program | New York | NY | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Westchester Medical Center Program | Valhalla | NY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| NYU Long Island School of Medicine Program | Mineola | NY | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Albany Medical Center Program | Albany | NY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| University at Buffalo Program | Buffalo | NY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 9 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program | Bronx | NY | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5% | 3 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 19 |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program | Greenvale | NY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 5 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Mount Sinai Hospital) Program | New York | NY | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13% | 2 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 55 | 9 | 36 | 23 |
| SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Program | Brooklyn | NY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| University of Rochester Program | Rochester | NY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 10 | 0 | 19 | |
| SUNY Upstate Medical University Program | Syracuse | NY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital Program | Stony Brook | NY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 3 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Morningside/West) Program | New York | NY | 0 | 6 | 0% | 1 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 9 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wake Forest University School of Medicine Program | Winston-Salem | NC | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 18 | |
| Vidant Medical Center/East Carolina University Program | Greenville | NC | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 12 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Summa Health System/NEOMED Program | Akron | OH | 0% | OPT | 0 | 80 | 0 | 20 | 7 | |||||
| The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University Program | Cleveland | OH | 0% | OPT | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| University of Toledo Program | Toledo | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program | Cleveland | OH | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 93 | 0 | 7 | 28 |
| University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine Program | Cincinnati | OH | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17% | 3 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 40 | 0 | 60 | 12 |
| Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Program | Cleveland | OH | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 4 | OPT | 8 | 31 | 0 | 62 | 24 | |
| Ohio State University Hospital Program | Columbus | OH | 0 | 15 | 0% | 2 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Program | Oklahoma City | OK | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Geisinger Health System Program | Danville | PA | 0% | REQ | 7 | |||||||||
| Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center Program | Hershey | PA | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 16 | |
| Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 80 | 0 | 20 | 7 | |||||
| Temple University Hospital Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0 | 0 | 0% | 1 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10% | 3 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium (AGH) Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 75 | 0 | 25 | 13 | |||||
| University of Puerto Rico Program | San Juan | PR | 0% | OPT | 40 | 40 | 0 | 20 | 10 | |||||
| Brown University Program | Providence | RI | 0 | 0 | 0% | 3 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 75 | 25 | 0 | 16 | |
| University of South Dakota Program | Sioux Falls | SD | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville Program | Knoxville | TN | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| University of Tennessee Program | Memphis | TN | 0% | NA | 0 | 86 | 0 | 14 | 13 | |||||
| East Tennessee State University/Quillen College of Medicine Program | Johnson City | TN | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Texas Tech University HSC El Paso Program | El Paso | TX | #DIV/0! | OPT | 0 | |||||||||
| University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Program | Austin | TX | #DIV/0! | OPT | 0 | |||||||||
| University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals Program | Galveston | TX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5% | 3 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 91 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Program | Houston | TX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4% | 2 | 7 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium Program | JBSA-Fort Sam Houston | TX | 0% | 17 | ||||||||||
| Baylor University Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 89 | 0 | 11 | 17 | |
| Texas A&M College of Medicine-Scott and White Medical Center (Temple) Program | Temple | TX | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine Program | San Antonio | TX | 0 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Program | Richmond | VA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||||
| Madigan Army Medical Center Program | Tacoma | WA | 0% | OPT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 6 | |||||
| West Virginia University Program | Morgantown | WV | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program | Milwaukee | WI | 1 | 6% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
Pathology Programs with the Most and Least AOA and GHHS Members
The pathology residency programs with the highest reported percentage of AOA members are:
- Massachusetts General Hospital Program
- University of Michigan Health System Program
- University of Virginia Medical Center Program
- Johns Hopkins University Program
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program
The pathology residency programs with the lowest reported percentage of AOA members are:
- USA Health Program
- Baylor College of Medicine Program
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School Program
- University of Colorado Program
- University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program
Are AOA Numbers Artificially Low in the Most Competitive Pathology Residency Programs?
As we can see above, while AOA and GHHS membership can be somehow beneficial, it’s not necessarily a critical factor in being accepted into a pathology residency program.
For example, the Stanford pathology program only had 4% of its residents with AOA membership and only 6% with GHHS membership.
So, why might some of the most competitive pathology residency programs have fewer AOA and GHHS members? One potential explanation is that some of the most prestigious medical schools don’t have AOA chapters. For example, the medical schools at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and UCSF all lack AOA chapters.
In summary, while AOA membership is an important achievement, it is not the only factor that residency programs consider when evaluating applicants. Pathology residency programs may place less emphasis on AOA membership and more on other factors such as research experience, leadership, and clinical skills. Therefore, AOA numbers may appear artificially low in some of the most competitive pathology residency programs.
Concluding Thoughts
Publications; AOA and GHHS membership; and having a PhD can all benefit an application into pathology. However, as we can see, different pathology residency programs have different expectations as to what they are looking for in applicants.
