Pathology Fellowship Training

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine is accepting applications for an ACGME-accredited one-year fellowship in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine. The goals of the fellowship are education in blood bank, apheresis, and cellular therapy with opportunities to explore coagulation, hematology, laboratory management, and new and emerging technologies within the field of transfusion medicine. Centralized in a large academic center surrounded by five hospitals there are numerous experiences including teaching, research, and interdisciplinary collaboration available. 

The Bone and Soft Tissue (BST) Pathology Fellowship program provides advanced training in the subspecialty through exposure to a wide range of diverse cases at Indiana University School of Medicine, a leading academic medical center. In this one-year program, the BST fellow will participate in all aspects of BST pathology, including review of in-house and consultation cases, participation in multidisciplinary sarcoma conferences and frozen section consultations. The fellow will not be expected to take in-house calls.

This accredited fellowship program provides one year of advanced training in diagnostic cytopathology. Fellows in this program actively participate in all aspects of cytopathology, including the sign-out of routine gynecologic and non-gynecologic specimens and the procurement and analysis of fine needle aspiration biopsies. The program emphasizes a comprehensive cytologic approach to both superficial and deep-seated FNA diagnosis. There is a wide spectrum of material (approximately 70,000 cases) originating from the six hospitals on the IU School of Medicine—Indianapolis campus. This includes more than 4,100 fine-needle aspiration cases per year, and approximately one-third of these are collected by the cytopathology staff and fellows.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine is accepting applications for an ACGME-accredited one-year fellowship in dermatopathology. The position focuses on obtaining excellent diagnostic skills in dermatopathology and provides ample opportunities for teaching, research, and interdepartmental collaboration. 

IU School of Medicine provides an ACGME-accredited fellowship in forensic pathology through its Department of Pathology and partnership with the Marion County Coroner’s Office. This training program fulfills the eligibility requirements of board certification and provides forensic pathology services to the Indianapolis metropolitan area. The Marion County Coroner’s office performs 4,799 death investigations and 1,812 examinations (945 full autopsies, 798 external, 69 partial) in 2022, encompassing a broad spectrum of both urban and rural cases. Multiple experienced and board-certified forensic pathologists provide supervision, guidance, and support to fellows in this program.

The Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology Fellowship program at IU School of Medicine provides comprehensive training across the entire spectrum of gastrointestinal pathology. The Department of Pathology receives a diverse array of cases ranging from mucosal biopsies to complex resection specimens. A large pancreatic tumor program at IU Health supplies the department with 300-400 pancreatic resection specimens annually. The transplant program at IU Health is the largest in pancreatic and small intestinal transplantation and the sixth largest in liver transplantation in the United States, providing ample training in transplantation pathology. IU School of Medicine is a part of the NIH-funded clinical research network for the study of non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis as well as the NIH-funded Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network. In addition, a busy consult service in GI and liver pathology is housed at IU Health in Indianapolis.

The Genitourinary Pathology Fellowship program at IU School of Medicine provides comprehensive training in all aspects of genitourinary pathology. Upon completing the program, fellows are prepared to assume a role as a subspecialty consultant in genitourinary pathology in an academic or private practice setting. The program is approved as a non-ACGME accredited fellowship by the Graduate Medical Education Committee. The Division of Genitourinary Pathology handles all adult genitourinary clinical material from the IU Health system in Indianapolis (including IU Health University Hospital, IU Health Methodist Hospital, IU Health North, and IU Health West hospitals). This provides a high volume of material that covers the full breadth of neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases. Two major components of the genitourinary pathology service are the daily in-house surgical pathology cases and the outside case/consultation service.

The ACGME-accredited hematopathology fellowship program at IU School of Medicine is offered by the Division of Hematopathology in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. This one-year program provides a broad-based training experience in hematopathology. The comprehensive diagnostic service consists of adult and pediatric hematopathology with a wide variety of specimens, including bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and other tissues. The fellowship also includes designated rotations in general laboratory hematology, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, molecular diagnostics, and coagulation. Dedicated elective months are provided for research and additional diagnostic exposure. Hematopathology faculty in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine are actively involved in clinically oriented research, particularly in the area of neoplastic hematopathology. Participation in departmental and clinical conferences is encouraged. The case material is derived from a 2900-bed medical center system with active hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplant divisions.

The ACGME-accredited one year fellowship program in Clinical Microbiology provides advanced training for MD or DO physicians who have completed either a pathology residency, or an internal medicine residency, or an infectious diseases fellowship and wish to subspecialize in Clinical Microbiology. The program is hosted by the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. ACGME fellows also train side-by-side with CPEP clinical microbiology fellows in the CPEP-accredited Medical Microbiology Fellowship Program.

Indiana University School of Medicine’s Medical and Public Health Laboratory Microbiology Fellowship is a two-year postdoctoral training program designed to prepare trainees to direct clinical and public health microbiology laboratories. The program is hosted by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and is accredited by the American Society for Microbiology’s Subcommittee on Postgraduate Educational Programs (CPEP).

A two-year neuropathology fellowship program is available at the IU School of Medicine and its main clinical-teaching facilities on the Indianapolis campus. These facilities provide a large volume of surgical and autopsy cases in neuropathology and ocular pathology. Planning and participation in departmental and interdepartmental conferences are a part of the program as is the instruction of residents and medical students. Diagnostic neuropathology is generally emphasized during the first year. Active participation in research projects is the main goal during the second year. Research opportunities in a variety of areas are numerous and include Alzheimer’s disease, prion diseases, and brain tumors. Optional one-month rotations are available in neurology, neurosurgery, and neuroradiology.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine offers a one-year Surgical Pathology fellowship. Fellows actively participate in all aspects of surgical pathology, including the sign-out of in-house and consultation cases as well as participation in an active frozen section service. The case material (approximately 70,000 cases) is enriched in oncological, transplantation-related, and GI specimens that originate from eight hospitals. There is subspecialty sign-out in urological, hepatic, and medical kidneys that are available as electives. Attendance at teaching conferences, including a daily consensus conference, is expected. Participation in one or more research projects is encouraged. The department is based in a centralized state-of-the-art laboratory.