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Pathology pipeline

March 2022—This is in regard to the article in CAP TODAY, January 2022, “What influences med students to choose pathology?” which discusses reasons for the low enrollment in pathology residencies.

The article is informative but there is no mention of an important resource we established at the CAP Foundation.

An initiative of the Foundation (as part of the Alvin M. Ring, MD, Future Leaders Fund), activated in 2018, awards grants to medical students to attend the Residents Forum at the CAP annual meetings. In addition, each student is assigned a mentor.

From 2018 to 2021 there were 43 awardees. Of the 26 students who have graduated and were eligible to enter into a pathology residency program, 19 (73 percent) have done so, so far.

Many of the awardees have sent a follow-up review of their experience, usually a glowing endorsement.