Paediatric Pathology Attachment
Members of team:
Drs Catherine Cullinane, Jens Stahlschmidt, Lisa Barker (Friday only)
Starting attachment
Please contact Dr Cullinane (67467) and Dr Stahlschmidt (67483)
Recommended reading:
- Royal college curriculum for paediatric pathology for general pathologists (p.37-39, p.59) attached
- Documents attached for some common specimens
Objectives during attachment
To see some of the wide variety of specimens and pathology in paediatric pathology. We cannot expect you to see everything in a short attachment, and this should be built up over your entire training. If you have a special interest in paediatric pathology or one aspect, please feel free to pursue it.
During your attachment aim to do the following :
Routine Diagnostics
| Activity | Description |
| Trainee cutup | Daily, after discussion of cases with the relevant consultant |
| Frozen sections | View once reported |
| Surgical cases | All reporting is supervised, please ask for cases |
| MDT | Preperation, and presentation if appropriate |
Some standard operating procedures (SOPs) are attached.
A slide collection is under development.
Textbooks should be available in the department for your use.
Paediatric autopsies
Make every effort to attend paediatric and perinatal autopsies when they are performed. The mortuary (64312) will be able to tell you when these are planned.
Journal Club, Audit, Special topics
| Activity | Description |
| Journal Club | Presentation to group |
| Educational cases | Minimum of 1 case per week, for slide collection. Either good example or unusual entity, or teaching aspect to case. One to be presented to group at Thursday meeting with detailed background research |
| *Audit | Commence 1 audit |
*optional
Regular Meetings
Time |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
8:00 |
Research meeting paediatrics/scientists | ||||
9:00 |
Post mortem | Post mortem | Post mortem | Post mortem | Post mortem Fetal medicine meeting (quarterly) |
10:00 |
Cut-up | Cut-up | Cut-up | Cut-up | Cut-up |
11:00 |
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12:00 |
Slide review | Slide review | |||
13:00 |
Review for MDT | Review for Liver/GI/perinatal | |||
14:00 |
Paediatric colorectal MDT (two monthly) |
Paediatric oncology MDT (weekly) |
Perinatal mortality (monthly) | ||
15:00 |
Slide review | Slide review | Slide review | Teenage and young adult MDT (weekly) | GI/liver MDT (fortnightly) |
16:00 |
Paediatric group meeting/journals/audit |
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17:00 |
Research meeting/clinical | ||||
18:00 |
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19:00 |
