Cytopathology Fellowship
Mission & Vision
The Cytopathology Fellowship is a one-year, ACGME- approved program. Our mission is to provide advanced, in-depth training in cytopathology. We seek to train pathologists to attain the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes to become excellent cytopathologists.
Mission & Vision
The Cytopathology Fellowship is a one-year, ACGME- approved program. Our mission is to provide advanced, in-depth training in cytopathology. We seek to train pathologists to attain the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes to become excellent cytopathologists.
Program Director’s Welcome
Our Cytopathology Fellowship is both clinically and academically oriented and focused on development of diagnostic skills in the areas of body cavity fluids and exfoliative, fine needle aspiration and gynecological cytology. Our division provides a robust volume of excellent and diverse materials for the education of our clinical fellows.
Program Director’s Welcome
Our Cytopathology Fellowship is both clinically and academically oriented and focused on development of diagnostic skills in the areas of body cavity fluids and exfoliative, fine needle aspiration and gynecological cytology. Our division provides a robust volume of excellent and diverse materials for the education of our clinical fellows.
In addition to acquiring microscopic diagnostic skills, our fellows develop competency in assessment of immediate reads (rapid on-site evaluation/ROSE), participate in the development and implementation of quality improvement processes for our clinical laboratories and participate in the presentation of lung multidisciplinary clinicopathologic conferences and tumor boards at University of Miami/Jackson Health System facilities where integration of clinical, radiographic and pathologic findings are discussed and management plans are determined.
Additionally, fellows cover the Jackson Health System’s Breast Health Center and thyroid, head and neck and surgical oncology clinics, where they perform fine needle aspiration and immediate FNA assessment.
Our faculty is actively involved as teachers, role models, scholars, advisers and mentors who are committed to helping trainees identify niches to be successful and satisfied. Educational activities aimed at providing an avenue for reinforcing medical knowledge, in addition to daily sign-out sessions and clinicopathologic conferences and tumor boards, include didactic sessions and journal clubs. Fellows are also exposed to a variety of clinical/translational research opportunities, in which they are expected to actively participate.
-Monica Garcia-Buitrago, MD
Description
Additionally, fellows cover the Jackson Health System’s Breast Health Center and thyroid, head and neck and surgical oncology clinics, where they perform fine needle aspiration and immediate FNA assessment.
Our faculty is actively involved as teachers, role models, scholars, advisers and mentors who are committed to helping trainees identify niches to be successful and satisfied. Educational activities aimed at providing an avenue for reinforcing medical knowledge, in addition to daily sign-out sessions and clinicopathologic conferences and tumor boards, include didactic sessions and journal clubs. Fellows are also exposed to a variety of clinical/translational research opportunities, in which they are expected to actively participate.
-Monica Garcia-Buitrago, MD
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Fellows per Year?
2
Duration of Fellowship?
1 year
Clinical Experience
Year 1
Fellows will spend their time at various facilities in the following areas over the course of their one-year fellowship:
23 weeks at UM Health System’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center: Gynecological, Non-gynecological Cytology and FNA Clinics
23 weeks at Jackson Health System’s Jackson Memorial Hospital: Gynecological, Non-gynecological Cytology and FNA Clinics
2 weeks: Research
4 weeks: Vacation
Your Faculty
Monica Garcia-Buitrago, MD
Director, Gastrointestinal Pathology Service
Director, Cytopathology Fellowship and Selective Pathology – Surgical/Gastrointestinal Pathology programs
Professor, Clinical Pathology
Carmen Gomez-Fernandez, MD
Director, Head and Neck Pathology Fellowship Program
Professor, Pathology
Vice Chair and Director, Education
Merce Jorda, MD, PhD, MBA
Chief, Pathology, Jackson Health System
Director, Genitourinary Pathology
Director, Cytopathology, UHealth Tower
Interim Chair, Department of Pathology
Jaylou Velez-Torres, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Pathology
Yiqin Zuo, MD, PHD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Pathology
Mehrdad Nadji, MD
Professor, Pathology
Vice Chairman, Clinical Affairs