This is a one-year program that has features of an advanced fellowship, allowing the individual to function as a junior faculty member (assistant) on a surgical pathology service that accessions more than 75,000 specimens per year. The responsibilities of this position include resident instruction, oversight of the grossing area, intraoperative frozen section evaluation and independent sign-out of surgical pathology cases. There also is exposure to ancillary techniques, including immunoperoxidase, cytogenetic, molecular biologic and electron microscopic studies.