Part 2 Teaching and Resources

Part 2 Teaching Sessions

Please contact Dr Ian Proctor (ian.proctor@nhs.net) if you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive the joining details.

General Advice

• Gain exposure to cytology cases - e.g. attend Northwick Park Course

• Attend Part 2-focused courses - e.g. Winter School, Oxford, Birmingham, Harlow

• Attend Part 2 teaching sessions - e.g. Part 2 Teaching Sessions organised by Dr Ian Proctor (see above)

• Attend study days, Friday teaching sessions, make notes and revisit them

• See box sets - you own local teaching sets, as well as collections in other trusts if required

• Look at virtual slide sets - PathXL, ExpertPath, Immunopath, Leeds

• Read the books - e.g. Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology

• Attend MDTs - learn about prognostic and treatment implications of histological diagnoses, etc

• Follow pathologists on Twitter, specifically those who post educational cases

• Professional Support Unit - Dyslexia support, COVID-19 Wellbeing Hub, Online Wellbeing Support, 1:1 Support

Resources

Online

• FRCPath Histopathology Part 2 Webinar - What I wish I’d Known

• Molecular Pathology UK - includes useful overviews, mock exams and a question bank

• Pathology Outlines - free, updated outline surgical pathology clinical pathology pathologist jobs, conferences, fellowships, books.

• PathCast - regular seminars with a collection of previous recordings available

• BoSTT (Bone and soft tissue tumours case studies) - mobile source of musculoskeletal tumour cases provided by Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH)

Slide Collections

• Leeds Virtual Pathology - Past FRCPath Part 2 cases

• PathXL - slide collections

• John Hopkins - slide collections, regularly uploaded cases with MCQ format

• Juan Rosai’s Collection of Surgical Pathology Seminars

• Webpathology - collection of surgical images

• Eurocytology - online courses divided by system, slide collections

• Pathpedia - e-Atlas hosting macroscopic and microscopic images viewable by system

• ExpertPath - high quality images, modules, specimen handling guidance

• ImmunoQuery - evidence-based decision support system for IHC

• University of Michigan virtual slide box

• Webpath - Organ system pathology images

• Recut Club - collection of educational whole-slide-images

Books

• Anatomic Pathology Board Review by Jay H. Lefkowitch MD – Designed for the American boards

• Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology by Vijaya B. Reddy MD MBA, Paolo Gattuso MD, Odile David MD MPH, Daniel J. Spitz MD, Meryl H. Haber MD

• Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease by Vinay Kumar, Abul Abbas, Jon Aster

• Rosai and Ackerman’s Surgical Pathology

• The Practice of Surgical Pathology: A Beginner’s Guide to the Diagnostic Process, by Diana Molavi

• Diagnostic Cytopathology by Winifred Gray and Gabrijela Kocjan

• Quick Reference Handbook for Surgical Pathologists by Natasha Rekhtman, Marina Baine, Justin Bishop

• Diagnostic Lymph Node Pathology by Margaret Ashton-Key, Penny Wright, Dennis Wright

• McKee’s Pathology of the Skin by Eduardo Calonje, Thomas Brenn, Alexandra Lazar, Steven Billing

  
  

Courses

• Note: Plan these well in advance and register early.

• Nottingham Part 2 two week course.

• Northwick Park cytopathology courses.

• Oxford Part 2 general, two weeks. Twice a year: September and March/April.

• Manchester Part 2 two day mocks and two week Surgical Courses by Oxbridge Medica.

• Birmingham Part 2 Histopathology two weeks and Part 2 cytology one week.

• Harlow Part 2 systemic and cytology courses.

• Pathsoc Winter School runs for one week, in three yearly cycles.