Bone & Soft Tissue Pathology Fellowship The Department of Pathology at Memorial Availability: July 2023 Sloan Kettering Cancer Center offers a one- year fellowship training program in bone and Number of Positions: One soft tissue pathology. The fellowship begins on Length of Program: One Year July 1st and ends on June 30th the following year. All fellows should have completed Deadline: August 1, for appoint- residency training in anatomic pathology and ments beginning 2 years later (ie. be certified (or eligible for certification) by 8/1/2021 for start date 7/1/2023). the American Board of Pathology. Early application is acceptable because completed applications may be During the sub-specialty fellowship year, the considered on a rolling basis. fellow will have the opportunity to study our large volume of quality in-house and submitted How to Apply: Apply Online material, departmental consultation case Only complete applications will material, as well as recommended reading of be reviewed. Once applicants have literature to achieve adequate competence submitted their applications, they will in the pathologic diagnosis, staging, and need to send the following documents: prognostication of a wide variety of bone and • Three letters of recommendation from soft tissue tumors. In addition, the fellow an institution in which the applicant will have the opportunity to perform clinico- has trained. Letters should be pathologic and molecular correlations. addressed to Dr. Ronald Ghossein, the The fellow will serve as a consultant to the program director. Please request letter oncologic pathology fellows in the orientation, writers add the following line after gross dissection and morphologic evaluation the heading (RE: Candidate’s Name, of bone and soft tissue specimens. Fellows Program & Dates for the program) are integrated into a multidisciplinary team of experts in bone and soft tissue • CV oncology, surgery, radiology and radiation • Copy of a medical school diploma and oncology. We provide ample opportunities translation, if necessary. to engage in independent and collaborative clinicopathologic and translational research. • International medical school graduates During the process of attendance of daily sign must submit a copy of their Educational out, the fellow would have had the opportunity Commission for Foreign Medical to review approximately 3000 cases during Graduates (ECFMG) certificate that is the course of the fellowship year. marked “valid indefinitely” Goals • The fellow will work with rotating surgical The goals of the Bone and Soft Tissue pathology fellow and follow through large Sub-Specialty Fellowship are: resection specimens to understand gross pathology, radiology and microscopic • To enable the fellow to gain sufficient correlations. experience in diagnosis of bone and soft tissue tumors. • The fellow will help preparation for conferences and DMT presentations. • To spend adequate time in research to study clinicopathological correlations • The fellow will spend part of the time in and molecular alterations in rare tumors. research projects with a goal towards completion of projects and scholarly • To contribute to academic activity with publications within the year. scholarly publications in the field of bone and soft tissue pathology. Fellows have access to intradepartmental and institutional didactics across the breadth of Objectives the disciplines of pathology and oncology. The Objectives of the Bone and Soft Tissue Applicants should have demonstrated a Sub-Specialty Fellowship are: sustained interest in bone and soft tissue • The fellow will attend the daily sign-out disease and evidence of strong oral and sessions. written communication skills. Stipend and Maintenance Contact The stipend is commensurate with the year For questions regarding this fellowship, please of the applicant’s postgraduate training. contact [email protected]. Nearby housing is available with rents that are Marquis Fuse and Angelica Angel comparable to NYC market rates; professional Department of Pathology liability insurance and health coverage are Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center provided free of charge. 1275 York Avenue New York, NY 10065 Facilities 212-639-7102 Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied [email protected] Diseases is a 425-bed hospital devoted to the care of patients with neoplastic diseases. The hospital is part of the Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center, which also includes Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. There Bone & Soft Tissue is an affiliation and close interaction between Pathology Facult the clinical and research units of the Center and and Staff the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, as well as with The Rockefeller University. Program Director Narasimhan Agaram, MBBS Meera Hameed, MD For More Information Visit: Chief, Surgical Pathology Service https://dev.mskcc.org/hcp-education- training/fellowships/bone-and-soft- Cristina Antonescu, MD tissue-pathology-fellowship Director, Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology.