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Abstract：
Pathology is not traditionally chosen by medical students applying to residency. In osteopathic medical schools, limited access to dedicated pathology faculty further complicates this issue. Because of a lack of pathology experiences, osteopathic medical students may not be as familiar with a pathology career. The purpose of this brief report is to describe the pilot experience of implementing a pre-existing web-based, free virtual platform for pathology education as alternative, supplemental exposure to pathology for osteopathic medical students at our institution. We began to offer the online pathology elective for Academic Year 2022-2023. Using the online free service of PathElective, this course provided a valuable exposure to pathology with multiple modules in anatomic, clinical, and digital/molecular pathology, before and after assessments, recorded videos by pathology experts, handouts, and reading assignments. During the first week, three introductory modules were required followed by weeks 2-4, in which the students would complete a total of 10 modules of their own choice. In total, 14 students participated in this virtual rotation from August 2022-May 2023. All chose cardiac pathology as the most popular module. Three of the 14 students matched into pathology residencies. This small cohort of 4th year medical students at our osteopathic medical school successfully completed a virtual elective rotation with the resources of PathElective. We report the success of this experience and hope to continue monitoring progress.
摘要：
传统上，病理学不是由申请住院医师的医学生选择的。在整骨医学院，对专门的病理学教师的有限访问使这个问题进一步复杂化。由于缺乏病理学经验，整骨医学生可能不熟悉病理学生涯。这份简短报告的目的是描述实施预先存在的基于Web的，免费的病理教育虚拟平台作为替代，补充暴露于病理学骨病医学生在我们的机构。我们开始提供2022-2023学年的在线病理学选修课程。使用PathSelect的在线免费服务，本课程提供了一个有价值的暴露于病理与解剖多个模块，临床,和数字/分子病理学，评估前后，由病理专家录制的视频，讲义,和阅读作业。在第一周,需要三个入门模块，然后是第2-4周，学生将完成自己选择的总共10个模块。总的来说,从2022年8月至2023年5月，有14名学生参加了这一虚拟轮换。所有人都选择了心脏病理学作为最受欢迎的模块。14名学生中有3名符合病理学住院医师。我们整骨医学院的这一小群4年级医学生成功地完成了一个虚拟的选修轮换与PathSelect的资源。我们报告这一经验的成功，并希望继续监测进展。
