Northwestern McGaw offers a fully accredited residency program in anatomic and clinical pathology based at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. This four-year residency program, Northwestern McGaw ENH Pathology (AAMC ID 1051274), emphasizes thorough and balanced education in anatomic and clinical pathology with opportunity and encouragement for supervised research within and outside the department.
Residents actively participate in all department functions, seminars, and teaching conferences. Advanced residents may rotate to other services and educational activities of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. All residents have rotations at Children's Memorial Hospital and the Medical Examiner's Office in Chicago. Residents also participate in some of the many professional activities in Chicago, such as meetings of local and national medical societies and symposia at the various area medical schools.
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare consists of north suburban Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview, and Highland Park Hospital in Highland Park, with a combined total of 775 beds. The pathology residency program is centered at Evanston Hospital.
A tertiary care institution, Evanston has strengths in many areas, including oncology, stem cell transplantation, high-risk obstetrics, neonatal intensive care, and primary care. It has a housestaff of 160 and a teaching staff of more than 300; most staff physicians have faculty appointments at the medical school. Approximately 300 medical students spend part of their clerkships at Evanston every year.
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine performed 85 autopsies in 2007 and processed 32,205 surgical and 62,000 cytology specimens, including those obtained through fine needle aspiration. The clinical laboratories performed approximately 3 million tests in the various divisions of the hospital. In addition to testing for hospital patients, the clinical laboratories handled substantial additional testing for an active outreach program, processing 25,687 tissue specimens in 2007. Molecular pathology, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, and fluorescence in situ hybridization are performed at Evanston.
Residents who desire experience in a community hospital may have rotations in their final year in the Glenbrook Hospital laboratories.
Three entry-level residencies in pathology are available this year. All residency positions are offered through the ERAS application system.
Thomas A. Victor, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Karen L. Kaul, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Urology
For more information, contact the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, 2650 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201-1718, 847/570-2019; fax 847/570-1938 or visit the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Web site.
E-mail: PathologyResidency@enh.org
Pathology-Evanston Hospital