Community & Private Practice Rotation

The majority of UNMC pathology graduates go on to work in a community and/or private practice having to integrate the myriad skills and knowledge acquired throughout their training. The community practice rotation at Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings, NE is a four-week opportunity to practice in that manner in a relaxed, collegial environment.

Here you will have the daily chance to experience of the full breadth of our field including on-site evaluations for EBUS, ultra-sound and CT guided biopsies and fine-needle aspirates; frozen sections; biopsies and resections from all areas of anatomic pathology; hematopathology; transfusion medicine; clinical lab management and problem solving; as well as close interactions with other treating physicians, clinicians and laboratory staff. Being a community hospital with outreach in outstate Nebraska, we are often the point of first diagnosis before possible referral to larger tertiary medical centers. As such, you will see a lot of both “bread and butter” cases as well as “zebra” cases. Daily grossing, handled by the resident and laboratory staff, allows you to develop gross-microscopic correlation and follow-through of cases from start to finish. In-department access to hospital leadership provides opportunities for an introduction to interdisciplinary medical staff affairs such as:

• How does the organized independent medical staff function
• how is one credentialed
• how does peer review work