Resident-centered USCAP

1. Resident-centered USCAP Bruce R. Smoller, MD Executive vice President United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology

2. Annual meeting events • Saturday: • Resident workshop: • This year’s theme, “Leadership, Collaboration and Change in Health Care” directed by Carol Farver - Cleveland Clinic • Sold out for second consecutive year • Evaluations – uniformly exceptional from last year (including from various faculty who attended) • Soliciting ideas for subsequent years • VIP Resident reception: • Members of Executive Committee, Council and USCAP Ambassadors attended a cocktail party with course attendees designed to enhance interactions between Academy leadership and our trainees!

3. Annual meeting events • Sunday: • Fellowship fair: • 45 booths representing 45 separate institutions – needed to expand space this year as it was “packed” last year • House staff specialty conference: • This year’s topic: “Boards Preparation: How and What to Study” • Session moderated by: Ann Folks and Barbara McKenna – speaking with Rebecca Johnson (ABP) and Mika Fujiwara (Stanford) • > 100 attended last year’s event

4. Annual meeting events • Monday and Tuesday: • Hospitality Suites for Trainees: • Round table discussions targeting following topics: • Pathology Training issues including Boards and MOC • Preparing for success in practice: • Academic • Private or large laboratory practice • Subspecialty practice/fellowships • And open discussions • Hosted by Ambassadors, members of the Resident Advisory Committee, Membership Committee, Executive Committee and Council – many of the “who’s who” in anatomic pathology • No iPads given out this year (sorry) • Expanded hours this year with coffee and snacks provided all day (in addition to the breakfasts and lunches from past years)

5. Annual meeting events • Monday: • Special symposium: • “Careers in Investigative Pathology: The Next Generation” – Drs. Berman (Hopkins) and Loda (Dana Farber Cancer Center).

6. House Staff Welcome Reception • Monday 5:30 – 7:30 PM • In Hospitality Suite (CC 301-303) • Open to all trainees attending the annual meeting • Members of Executive Committee, Council, Education Committee and other leadership roles encourage to attend and mingle with our trainees, i.e., our future! • Stop in, please!!!!

7. Attendance and participation at annual USCAP meeting • Number of abstracts submitted with trainees as first authors: 1486 • Number of platforms given by trainees: 111 out of the 280 total • 733 Poster Presentations with trainees as first authors • 1286 trainees attended the annual meeting in 2012 – most ever – (surpasses 1220 from Boston 2010) • 1008 attendees were junior members in 2012 • No final data yet on 2013 trainee attendance

8. Residents presenting platforms– leading institutions (2012 data) • Johns Hopkins 9 • Brigham & Women’s 8 • Cleveland Clinic 7 • Cornell 6 • Memorial Sloan-Kettering 6 • MD Anderson 5

9. Total Abstracts submitted by Residents (2012 data) • Johns Hopkins 45 • Mayo Clinic 40 • Cleveland Clinic 34 • Brigham & Women’s 33 • Emory 33 • MD Anderson 29 • Univ. Pittsburgh 29 • Washington Univ. 28 • Mass. General Hospital 25 • UCSF 21

10. Abstracts at annual meeting with resident involvement (2012 data) • 2416/3083 (78%) submitted had at least one resident on list of authors • 1679/3083 (54%) submitted had resident listed as first author • 1682/2176 (77%) of those accepted had a least one resident on list of authors • 1175/2176 (54%) of those accepted had a resident listed as first author (55% for 2013)

11. Stowell-Orbison Award • Given for best papers by a pathologist-in-training: • 316 abstracts accepted (424 submitted) –– 4 awards and 4 honorable mentions

12. Stowell-Orbison Award – abstracts accepted • Washington University 16 • Univ. Pittsburgh 14 • Univ Chicago 12 • Emory University 11 • Univ. Pennsylvania 10 • Johns Hopkins Univ. 10 • Mayo Clinic 9 • Beth Israel/Deaconess 9 • Loyola 8 • MD Anderson 8 • Albany Med. Ctr. 7 • Univ. Michigan 7 • Cleveland Clinic 7 • Univ. Toronto 5 • Yale Univ. 5 • Univ. Utah 5 • MSKCC 5 • Northwestern 5 • Brown Univ. 5 • Stanford Univ. 5

13. ADASP Awards • ADASP - Autopsy Award: Given to a pathologist-in-training for best poster based upon autopsy material • ADASP Surgical Pathology Award: Given to a pathologist-in-training for best poster based upon surgical pathology material

14. House Staff Participation in Academy • Education Committee: • Kristie White (UCSF) • Ashley Cimino (Hopkins) • Both rotating off and two new residents named to succeed them: • Kevin Fischer (Emory) • Jennifer Pogoriler (Univ. Chicago) • Innovative Educational Products Development Committee: • Initial membership had two residents, now both on faculty

15. House Staff Participation in Academy • Resident Advisory Committee • Julia Iezzoni, Chair • Subcommittee within Membership Committee • Works specifically to design ideas that might appeal to trainees • Many members of committee are trainees: • Jennifer Kaplan • Melissa Austin • Benjamin Coulter • Nora Frisch • Rondell Graham • Ian Hagemann • Trent Marburger • Kristie White • Jason Pimentel

16. House Staff Participation in Academy • Foundation Committee: • Kari Hooper (Univ. Alabama, Birmingham) – responsible for: • Resident registration booth • Expanded hospitality suite hours and food • “Welcome Reception for House Staff” • Mentorship Donation Program • Coupon books while in Tampa that are USCAP- sponsored • ABP Cooperating Societies Annual Meeting • Rondell Graham (Mayo) attended as our representative

17. Pre-meeting Materials • “How to Navigate” guide to the annual meeting • Powerpoint presentation designed to walk residents through the annual meeting from a resident’s perspective • This idea arose through the Resident Advisory Committee – resident ideas coming to fruition

18. Current plans • Resident Board Review Preparation: • Series of subspecialty based exams based upon materials gleaned from the USCAP website • Questions taken from SAMs type questions and re-packaged for use by residents in preparation for standardized national exams • Project spear-headed by residents! • Incorporated into MyPath – ready for launch right after annual meeting

19. Web-portal designed to be a concentrated site for curated, high quality content for surgical pathologists: • Includes almost everything from USCAP website including synchronized short courses with power point slides and accompanying audio • Handouts • Last 10 years worth of Mod Path and LI • Rosai’s textbook of Surgical Pathology, Sternberg’s textbook of Surgical Pathology and 5 other textbooks! • Completely searchable and with all figures easily downloaded for incorporation into presentations • PubMed • Networking function for sharing comments and ideas

20. International House Staff • Stoddard Travel Scholarship: • Up to $5,000/year in travel scholarships to trainees from countries with financial need • This year 3 scholarships given to trainees from India, all of whom had abstracts accepted for presentation

21. Future • Additional courses being discussed for the first weekend • New courses being recruited to replace the resident-oriented courses currently at the meeting • If you have an idea, please submit it – we have a new committee designed to fast track unique course offerings! • Discussion of developing a series of “basics” courses during the annual meeting, specifically aimed at pathologists-in-training