Recruitment to pathology: past, present and future problems.
Tracing the historical development of Pathology and its subdisciplińes identifies a number of important factors which are adversely influencing recruitment to the specialty in many countries. This is likely to deteriorate further unless: 1. Undergraduate students are presented with a more dynamic approach to the subject. 2. The teaching is made consistently more relevant to clinical disease. 3. Students are made more aware of the attractions of the specialty as a career. It is also very necessary to reorganise many of the postgraduate training programmes and centres to allow trainees to take a progessively more active part in decision-making and organisational/administrative matters and, in particular, to eliminate the unnecessary and usually counter-productive polarisation of the opposing views of senior pathologists who are either predominantly experimental or totally service-orientated in their outlook.
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Department of Pathology, City Hospital, Nottingham, U. K.
D002321:Career Choice; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010336:Pathology / Q000193:education*; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods*; D000078329:Workforce