<p>anyone know of any good schools with good professors involving pathology?
i looked at the specialties of graduates from brown's PLME and not one had pathology as a specialty.</p>
<p>if anyone has ANY information, that would be most helpful :)</p>
<p>thank you in advance.</p>
<p>Just because one school didn’t produce any pathology residents (over what, a year), doesn’t mean you can’t go into pathology.</p>
<p>The thing is, most people go into medicine expecting to see patients (ones that are alive). They don’t decide to become doctors because they want to look through a microscope all day. That doesn’t mean you can’t, or that if you do you shouldn’t become a physician, just that pathology is not a popular field. Certainly there are people who realize midway through medical school that dealing with sick people who do nothing but complain isn’t for them or that for the lifestyle they want, pathology is their golden ticket, but they’re still a minority of physicians (though vitally important).</p>
<p>Further, you have to realize how personal specialty choice is. While a great professor may inspire a few students to change their minds (or alternatively horrible profs discouraging students), pathology is a unique situation, something that most people have already crossed off their list well before any professor has a chance to make a difference in their opinion. </p>
<p>So bottom line, if you want to be a pathologist, you can, get into med school, ANY med school and that field will be open to you.</p>
<p>pathology is exactly what i want to do i’d rather diagnose and sit in a lab then talk to patients haha 
thank you so much for your insight, it was what i needed!</p>
<p>Pathology is a great field, and I know plenty of people who love it. You should know that it is nothing, at all, the way it is portrayed on TV. Much more molecular biology, some chemistry, etc.</p>
<p>Pathology training and research are often conducted under the auspices of “Laboratory Medicine” departments.</p>
<p>thank you to all of you this information has really helped me!
do you know of any schools with exceptionally good “laboratory medicine” departments?</p>
<p>I believe UCSF has a good department, but I am biased.
[UCSF</a> Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Education | Residency Programs](<a href=“http://labmed.ucsf.edu/education/residency/residency-index.html]UCSF”>http://labmed.ucsf.edu/education/residency/residency-index.html)</p>
<p>OP: At this point there’s no possible relevance of which schools are excellent at pathology; such a decision wouldn’t matter until you were choosing a residency program after medical school.</p>
<p>I would say it makes very little difference how good your medical school pathology department is, but not none at all. It is helpful to be exposed to top flight work in the field you plan to enter. Having more prominent professors in that area also helps with letters of recommendation.</p>
<p>But I do agree that you will learn nearly nothing about pathology in medical school. Your main concern should be picking the best school, if you get into more than one, and have reasonable choices allowing for cost. Then try to learn about a wide variety of fields. Very few students know enough about medical specialties when they start med school to make an informed choice of fields.</p>