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Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP)
is one of the largest clinical laboratories in the world. It is
composed of 1,600 people working in 40 specialty laboratories performing
more than 13 million tests a year.
A highly skilled team of medical professionals including physicians,
scientists, medical technologists, medical technicians, lab assistants,
biologists, chemists, microbiologists, geneticists, and other specialists
work collaboratively. The department receives specimens for testing
from Mayo Clinic and Mayo Health System and is a reference laboratory
for other clinics and hospitals both nationally and internationally.
The Division
of Anatomic Pathology has 40 pathologists, with specialty expertise
covering the entire field of surgical pathology. The division is
organized around working groups dedicated to specific organ systems,
but all members contribute service to general areas as well (e.g.,
frozen section lab, autopsy, cytology).
The division is supported by a full-service histology and immunohistochemistry
laboratory, an active electron microscopy section and a growing
in-situ hybridization lab. The hospital surgical pathology practice
is unique in its heavy reliance on rapid frozen section diagnosis,
providing trainees a valuable opportunity for immediate correlation
of gross and microscopic pathology.
Mayo Clinic's annual volume of pulmonary pathology includes more
than 1,500 thorascopic and/or thoracotomy surgical specimens and
several hundred pulmonary pathology consultations.
Mayo Clinic's four pulmonary pathologists will take an active role
in your training.
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