Teaching laboratory management and quality assurance/quality improvement skills in a cytopathology fellowship program

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and serves as the Barbara F. Atkinson, MD Endowed Professor of Pathology. Her book Cytopathology Review, which she co-wrote with Ivan Damjanov, is in its second edition and contains a chapter regarding questions on the management of cytopathology laboratories. Dr. Fan also is a coauthor of a chapter in the newly published book Quality Management in Anatomic Pathology, published by College of American Pathologists Press. Dr. Fan currently serves on the Cytopathology Committee of the College of American Pathologists.Teaching Laboratory Management and Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement Skills in a Cytopathology Fellowship Program Cytopathology laboratories are highly regulated, with many policies, procedures, and quality monitors. One important aspect of cytopathology fellowship training is training in laboratory management and quality assurance/quality improvement (QA/QI) skills. Laboratory management is one of the competencies listed in the cytopathology milestones developed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) under Systems-Based Practice (SBP) in the evaluation of cytopathology fellows. 1 Following the descriptors and targets under SBP items 1 through 5 in the milestones, we have developed and implemented the following teaching and evaluation methods for cytopathology fellows.