Benefits & Salaries  Clinical and Anatomic Pathology Fellowships  Fellowship Application     A MESSAGE FROM THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Joseph C. Fantone, M.D. Director, Residency Training Program	I am pleased to welcome you to our web-site and have the opportunity to introduce you to our Department and Residency Training Program in Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Our Department of Pathology has a long and illustrious history, going back for the better part of a century. The Department has impressive stability, with only five Chairs of Pathology in the 20th century. Our faculty are very diverse, including those with significant clinical service responsibilities and those with NIH funded research programs. Many faculty are involved in multi-disciplinary translational research programs associated with the University of Michigan Cancer Center and other clinical departments. The Department enjoys a strong reputation in medical student education and in residency training; pathology faculty are frequent recipients of teaching awards. The strengths of the Department in teaching, in clinical service and in research provide an environment that underpins our strong residency training program.
We are proud of our Pathology Residency Training Program. This program can respond to the training objectives of every individual. Combined Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology training is selected by most of the residents, but we also provide "straight" Anatomic or Clinical Pathology training. Our program also provides selected rotations or full-time fellowship training experiences in essentially all of the subspecialty areas of pathology. Our faculty continues to expand and represents a dynamic mix of senior faculty who are leading experts in their fields with mid-career and junior faculty with strong academic interests. These strengths obviously provide boundless opportunities for house officers. The research enterprise in the Department is large and diverse, representing in terms of NIH funding one of the five best funded Departments in the United States. This includes a spectrum off investigational studies from basic molecular biology to translational biomedical research and clinical investigation. The areas of current research emphasis include cancer cell biology, programmed cell death, regulation of the immune and inflammatory responses, vascular biology and cell signal transduction, to name just a few. For residents who desire experience in research, this is accommodated by laboratory rotations during elective periods and by postdoctoral fellowships after completion of the core clinical training. In summary, we have a rich academic environment for our Residency Training Program. The University of Michigan Health System is robust and very successful, with a large network and numerous offsite clinics. This extensive network feeds into the central Medical Center complex, where pathology residents receive their training, and which sits on the edge of the Central Campus of the University of Michigan, one of the most renowned public universities in the world. We welcome your interest and hope you will consider our program seriously; any questions you might have can be sent via E-mail to jfantone@umich.edu, or you can call our Residency Program Office at (734) 936-1888.