Seven one-year fellowships are offered to provide advanced experience in surgical pathology. These positions have received ACGME special selective accreditation. The surgical pathology practice of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania functions in a subspecialty model. The responsibilities of fellows include supervised sign-out of a comprehensive range of medical and oncologic surgical specimens and responsibility for frozen section diagnoses.
A two-year ACGME –accredited clinical training program is offered to qualified candidates. Fellows are responsible for approximately 220 brain autopsies and over 1,100 surgical cases, nerve, and muscle biopsies and consults. Rotations at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research are an integral part of the fellowship. Senior fellows supervise junior fellows and are exposed to ongoing research projects in the Division, the Department, and the Medical Center.
We are currently accepting applications for academic year 2026-2027. We will be participating in the NRMP Match for Hematopathology Fellowship. Interested applicants should send the below required documents to HemePathFellowship@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
As the first ACGME accredited GI/hepatic pathology fellowship program in the country, this one-year program is aimed toward the development of academically oriented surgical pathologists with a subspecialty interest in gastrointestinal and liver pathology.
The American Board of Pathology (ABP) accredited Cytopathology Fellowship Training Program at the University of Pennsylvania is available to all ABP-certified or -eligible persons.
The Cytopathology section of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has instructed fellows in Cytopathology since the 1980s. It provides a forum for specialized experience in academic and diagnostic cytopathology to residents fully trained in Anatomic Pathology.
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania contributes significantly to a broad range of education programs on campus, including undergraduate medical education, residency and clinical fellowship training, graduate training towards the PhD, postdoctoral research fellowship training, continuing medical education, and undergraduate education at Penn.
Highlights
Preeminent pathology and laboratory medicine residency training programs in Anatomic Pathology (AP only), Clinical Pathology (CP only), Combined Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (AP/CP), or Combined Anatomic Pathology/Neuropathology (AP/NP)
Option for Research Tracks in AP (only), CP (only), and AP/CP
Top 10 Pathology and Laboratory Medicine residency program
Ranked No. 4 among Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency programs by research contributions from graduates in the last ten years
Particular focus for academic careers in Transfusion Medicine, Neuropathology, Cytopathology, Molecular Genetic Pathology, Forensic Pathology, or Hematopathology
Major role in training MD/PhD students and graduate students through the Perelman School of Medicine Biomedical Graduate Studies Groups
Medical Student Education: more than 2,100 faculty teaching hours devoted to relevant education at all levels
Student Fellowship Training Program provides a year-out experience in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine for 3rd- and 4th-year medical students
Leadership and excellence in medical student education throughout medical school curriculum
Video Introduction
We invite you to view the introductory residency program video for prospective applicants below, as well as other short videos highlighting initiatives and activities of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in our video section.
James M. Wilson, MD, PhD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is this year's co-recipient of the Jane M. Glick Graduate Student Teaching Award for his longstanding, exemplary service to the core mission of education, mentoring, and training the next generation of biomedical scientists in the spirit of scientist-educator Jane Glick, in whose remembrance the award was established.
Four department faculty members were honored with Excellence in Teaching Awards at the Perelman School of Medicine Class of 2016 awards ceremony on December 12. The teaching awards are selected by the entire class of second-year medical students and represent what the students think are the ideals in teaching excellence. Among this year's recipients of the student teaching awards are:
