- Nancy Johnson
Kick-starting conversations about strong practice management. The Pathologist Leadership Summit in April provides your roadmap. And going in alone as a solo pathologist. A rural practitioner shares his story. This and more next. This is Path News Network Daily Edition from the College of American Pathologists. I'm Nancy Johnson. It's Wednesday, March 11th. Pathology training prepares you for a lot in the laboratory, but managing a practice and its people, not so much. Next month, practice management gets a spotlight on day one of the CAP Pathologists Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. At the April 25th session, colleagues will share expertise in three areas. Tackling toxic team dynamics in a busy practice, increasing efficiency, and making a digital transformation. Dr. Cedric Bailey, Vice Chair of the CAP Practice Management Committee, hopes participants in the team dynamics session will come ready to kickstart conversations and share their experiences.
- Dr. Cedric Bailey
The focus of the session is to really identify so-called toxic. communication patterns or maladaptive communication patterns and try to nip them in the bud and create a new line of communication.
- Nancy Johnson
Dr. Bailey says the hour focused on digital transformation will include an example from CAP member Dr. Mary Gupta, who manages a private practice in Tennessee.
- Dr. Cedric Bailey
She single-handedly was in charge of building her digital pathology infrastructure for, again, a pretty small group. And she found ways to do that, you know, on a relatively low budget in a practice setting that, you know, has remote sign out and doesn't exactly have the resources of a larger tertiary care center. So I think I'm excited to learn about how to implement that digital pathology roadmap on a small scale, not just what we normally hear about, which is large scale operations.
- Nancy Johnson
Register for the summit and learn more about the practice management agenda at the CAP's. homepage. Ticks and lice and bed bugs, oh my These parasites are never a welcome sight in your home or under your microscope, but they are some of the most frequently encountered arthropods in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. The CAP's new Arthropod Benchtop Reference Guide, rich with illustrations and detailed descriptions, will help students, medical technologists, and clinical parasitologists quickly identify these ectoparasites. Written by Dr. Bobbi Pritt and Dr. Blaine Matheson, the guide is a go-to resource for daily practice with more than 25 profiles and updated epidemiologic tables. Head over to the CAP's print book section under the publications page to find the Arthropod Benchtop Reference Guide. What's it like to be a solo pathologist in a rural community hospital? To many pathologists in large, bustling group settings, the idea of going it alone might seem exciting, dull, or somewhere in between. In the latest episode of the CAP's CAPcast, Dr. Dean Joelson, an independent pathologist in rural Georgia, shares what his days are like covering a wide range of cases. Dr. Joelson started his career in group practice. and says as a solo practitioner, you have to be ready to take on anything.
- Dr. Dean Joelson
The nice thing about my prior job is that I showed up in the morning, got a stack of 10, 15 flats, and that was my job. Just get through them. Now there's so much more variety, but it's also a lot more fragmented. So that's a challenge, is there's not necessarily protected time to... four hours just to look at cases. You have to be prepared to stop in the middle of a case and answer a blood bank question or chemistry question or call a critical value or whatever it is.
- Nancy Johnson
The CapCast conversation with host Dr. Edward Gutman explores the personal and professional challenges that solo pathologists confront working with practices and patients.
- Dr. Dean Joelson
So I'm on call all the time. I mean, I have always got my cell phone with me. And that can wear on you. It can wear on you in a big way. If I want to take some time off, I have to find somebody to replace me. And I am entirely dependent on what the locums market will provide.
- Nancy Johnson
You can catch the latest CapCast episode on the CAP's podcast page or wherever you get your podcasts. Don't miss a conversation in Thursday's daily edition about staffing solutions and locum tenens practitioners. As a busy pathologist, your results impact medical teams and patients long after you hit send on your pathology report. The CAP's Mock Tumor Board in Breast Pathology on May 20th will help you better understand that impact and how pathology results influence surgical, medical, and radiation oncology tumor management. The live-streamed webinar gives you an opportunity to discuss six breast cancer cases in a Mock Tumor Board setting with experts and bring new strategies and approaches to your own community practice. Visit the CAP education page to register for the two-hour mock tumor board webinar. That's all for today's Daily Edition. Be sure to check the show notes for more information on today's stories. Watch your inbox for more news like this and the CAP's advocacy newsletter every Tuesday and our weekly edition newsletter on Thursdays. We're back at 5 a.m. Eastern for another episode of the Daily Edition. I'm Nancy Johnson. Have a great day.