Pathologists
Also called:
Pathologist, Pathology Laboratory Director, Attending Pathologist, Anatomic Pathologist
What they do:
Diagnose presence and stage of diseases using laboratory techniques and patient specimens. Study the nature, cause, and development of diseases. May perform autopsies.
On the job, you would:
- Examine microscopic samples to identify diseases or other abnormalities.
- Diagnose diseases or study medical conditions using techniques such as gross pathology, histology, cytology, cytopathology, clinical chemistry, immunology, flow cytometry, and molecular biology.
- Write pathology reports summarizing analyses, results, and conclusions.
Health
Math and Science
Arts and Humanities
Business
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
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Verbal
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
Ideas and Logic
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
Visual Understanding
- see hidden patterns
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
Memory
- remember words, numbers, pictures, or steps
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People interested in this work like activities that include
ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Analytical Thinking
- Integrity
- Achievement/Effort
- Independence
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You might use software like this on the job:
Medical software
- MEDITECH Anatomical Pathology
- Orchard Software Orchard Harvest LIS
Accounting software
- Cerner Millennium ProFit
- Healthvision MediAR
Information retrieval or search software
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doctoral/professional degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
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