The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine offers both a 4-year AP/CP program and a 3-year AP-only or 3-year CP-only program, with training in all disciplines of pathology.
Twenty-three residency positions (20 dual track and 3 single track), eight subspecialty fellowships (cytopathology, hematopathology, transfusion medicine, breast/gyn, general surg path, thoracic/transplant, GI/Liver, and UW Clinical Informatics) and one translational research fellowship are available. Typically, four to six residents are recruited through the NRMP Match process each year.
Facilities
A majority of pathology training is offered in the University Hospital (505 beds and theĀ number one hospital in Wisconsin for 11 years running), East Madison Hospital (55 beds),Ā and the connected William S. Middleton Veterans Affairs Hospital (150 beds), along with over 125 regional primary and specialty care clinics. These hospitals annually provide over 500 autopsies, 36,000Ā surgical cases, 30,500 cytologies, and more thanĀ 2.5 million laboratory tests. University Hospitalās Clinical Labs offers a wide range of highly complex testing including molecular diagnostics and histocompatibility and are staffed with experienced technologists.
The department has over 45 full-time faculty members, nearly all of whom are actively engaged in clinical and teaching activities with residents.
Madison, the state capital, is situated on four picturesque lakes 150 miles northwest of Chicago. The high percentage of academic professional personnel among the metropolitan population of approximately 300,000 has been a stimulus for the city and the university to offer a wide variety of educational, cultural and recreational opportunities while maintaining the safety, easy livability, and feeling of community of a small city. Madison and surrounding suburbs are repeatedly cited as āBest Places to Live,ā due in part to an excellent public education system, a liberal and tolerant attitude towards diversity, excellent restaurants, and superb university and city facilities for year-round outdoor activities. Madison marks the Eastern edge of the āDriftlessā region, a portion of Western Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota that remained unglaciated in the last ice age, resulting in a hilly, stream-filled landscape quite different than the flat acres of corn and wheat typical of most of the Midwest. This makes for beautiful hiking, rock-climbing, and some of the best road biking in the country.
