Requirements
 

Residency candidates must be graduates of approved medical schools in the United States or Canada. Graduates of foreign medical schools must have ECFMG certification. Satisfactory references are required.

Types and Numbers of Appointments
 

The program has 16 pathology residency positions, 4 at each PGY level.

Facilities
 

The NSLIJ Health System is a 14-hospital system with an extensive network of ambulatory care sites in Nassau and Suffolk counties of Long Island, and the Queens and Staten Island boroughs of New York City. It is the nation’s third largest health system and the largest in the greater New York metropolitan area. There are over 250,000 hospital discharges per year, and 3.6 million outpatient visits, representing 1.6 million unique patients per year treated by this health system, or 30% of the service area population of 5.4 million. Ten percent (10%) of all live births in the State of New York occur within this health system (24,000). There are 1,600 NSLIJ Health System physician faculty, with over 7,000 affiliated physicians. The NSLIJ Health System is a national leader in Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives, recipient of the 2010 National Quality Healthcare Award, and is in the process of a system-wide deployment of the Electronic Medical Record, the largest deployment in the nation. NSUH and LIJMC are home to nationally recognized programs in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Cancer. The pathology residency program operates at three sites within the health system: Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJMC), North Shore University Hospital (NSUH), and the NSLIJ Core Laboratories; these three sites are all within 2 miles of each other. With 827 total beds, LIJMC – located on the Queens-Nassau border – consists of three divisions: Long Island Jewish Hospital, Schneider Children’s Hospital and The Zucker Hillside Hospital for behavioral health. The campus is currently undergoing major renovations, including a new 10-story inpatient pavilion that will be the future home of the Katz Women’s Hospital. NSUH is a 915-bed acute care tertiary hospital. Both hospitals offer the most advanced care in all medical and surgical specialties, including cancer care, emergency and trauma care, cardiovascular and orthopedic services, neuroscience, and maternal-fetal medicine and a full array of women's health services. Immediately adjacent to NSUH is the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, home for basic and translational research in the health system. The NSLIJ Core Laboratories support all 14 hospitals in the NSLIJ Health System, and have a robust outreach program across the breadth of pathology and laboratory medicine.

The Division of Anatomic Pathology is integrated across the NSUH, LIJMC and Core Laboratory sites, including integration of subspecialty services and provision of same-day consultative support for the other pathology practices in the NSLIJ Health System. The NSUH clinical laboratory is a “rapid response laboratory”, with approximately 50% of NSUH clinical testing performed at the Core Laboratories. The LIJMC clinical laboratories are a full-service operation, with approximately 10% of reference testing performed at the Core Laboratories. Pathology Residents gain educational opportunity from clinical operations at all three sites. In 2009, at these three sites combined there were 89,875 surgical pathology accessions, and 95,167 cytopathology accessions. Over 12 million clinical laboratory tests were performed, and these laboratories supported 1,925,263 point-of-care tests at patient care sites. Autopsies are performed at both LIJMC and NSUH, totaling 231 in 2009. In keeping with the large size of this enterprise, the LIJMC, NSUH, and Core Laboratory facilities are state-of-the-art and highly automated, with over 1,200 professional, technical and non-technical personnel. The NSLIJ Health System libraries, centered at LIJMC and NSUH, have 9,300 medical texts including 460 e-books, subscribes to 50 print journals with online access to 3,800 unique journal titles, and stocks over 15,000 bound volumes of journals. AECOM has over 4,000 electronic journals, to which LIJMC has access.

Community
 

The LIJMC and Core Laboratories clinical campuses are located in the New Hyde Park-Lake Success area of Long Island. The NSUH campus is just 2 miles away in Manhasset, on the North Shore of Long Island near Manhasset Bay. The location of both hospitals, about 10 miles east of New York City, offers easy access to the cultural and entertainment attractions for which the city is famous, as well as to the extensive natural recreational facilities of central, north, south, and eastern Long Island.

Stipends
 

Stipends effective as of 7/1/10 are as follows: (PGY-1) $59,500; (PGY-2) $61,500; (PGY-3) $63,500; (PGY-4) $65,000. Chief Residents receive an additional stipend of $1,500. Included in the benefits package: $1,800 housing stipend for qualified trainees, health and life insurance coverage and the supply and laundering of House Staff uniforms.