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SCALPELS, SCRUBS, AND NITRILE GLOVES: LEARNING THE WAY OF THE PATHOLOGISTS’ ASSISTANT

A student's blog from the West Virginia Pathologists' Assistant Program, class of 2023

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2 more months, you say?

Updates: ~~Autumn~~ First things first: I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a position with Providence medical group in...

(Ligament of) Treitz the best you can!

Updates: I’ve returned to Morgantown! For 6 weeks anyway, as I rotate through the Ruby Memorial Autopsy suite. Morgantown is a thoroughly...

What's a skeleton's favorite plant?

A Bone-zai tree Updates Today is the EXACT HALFWAY POINT between January 1st and December 16th (graduation day)!!! I finished my...

WVU East - Martinsburg, WV

Updates Happy Easter, Blessed Ostara, and a Beautiful Equinox to all! The sun is returning and I am…so…so…relieved. I’m writing from...

The clinical year begins!

Hello dear readers- The clinical year has begun and everyday is bringing new specimens that I recognized from my studying last year, and...

Let's have a "Blast-oma" next year!

Here we are, at the end of the first year of graduate school, of the WVU pathologists’ assistant program! Updates: The white coat...

It's going "Tibia"-kay!

The Updates We finished the second semester of grad school! I’m writing this on the first day back to fall classes, excited to get back...

Round 2, ding ding!

Summer in Morgantown is pretty different from the regular school year. This is the season for routine maintenance, repairs and road work...

It's the Final(s) Countdown

It. Is. Finals. Week. I like finals week. Not just because we are almost done with the term, but because I really have a sense of how...

Whatever doesn't kill you...

...Will probably end up on the grossing bench! Academic updates: At this point in the semester we have been reading our CAP Cancer...

Spring break musings

I tend to have pretty good timing when it comes to getting sick, namely that I get sick during breaks from school. So since it’s Spring...

Let's. Get. Organized. 🧠💪

As someone who hasn’t been in school for 3 years, these first couple weeks have been about getting organized, finding out what works for...

Introductions

"A Pathologists’ Assistant is a highly trained, certified allied healthcare professional who is qualified by academic and practical...

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