Match Week 2022 (#Match2022) was undoubtedly the most difficult week of my young medical career. Finding out that I did not match into what I then thought was my desired residency choice left me hurt, distraught and lost as I saw the celebratory social media posts of my classmates who successfully matched into the residencies which they worked so hard to achieve. While others were surrounded by the villages which had supported them during the beginning of their medical journe

I don’t regret any of what came before, and much of what I learned along the way in those other pursuits has been more useful and valuable to me than anything I’ve gotten out of a book or lecture. We first met Dr. Martin during Match Week 2021. She was counting down the hours until she found out where she matched for pathology residency. After learning about her path to pathology, we were inspired to begin a new blog series which we have dubbed Path At Last! Pathologists from

In a recent poll we asked #PathTwitter, “How do you learn best when studying pathology?” The choices were Hands-on, Reading, Listening and Other. A total of 129 pathologists answered. Hands-on won by a landslide with 66.7%. Reading, Listening and Other came in at 20.2%, 10.9% and 2.3% respectively. While there may be no better teacher than the microscope, scores of online learning resources are available to the pathologist and those on the #Path2Path. For those who learn best

Twitter. No longer a place to just share memes and gifs and funny cat videos. If you read part one of our pathologists and social media series, you learned that live-tweeting is no longer just a trend, it’s commonplace and arguably required for pathologists to make the most of conventions. In part two, we are covering the very impressive #EBUSTwitter study and Twitter chats organized by various groups and organizations. This is an exciting post, so let’s jump right in! Perhap