Dermatopathology Fellowship

Education

Supported by a world-class medical school, the WashU Medicine Dermatopathology Center strives to provide superior education to future generations of dermatologists and pathologists. Our trainees augment our team, allowing us to handle a large caseload of both basic and complex cases.

Dermatology Grand Rounds

Patients presenting with diagnostic or therapeutic challenges may be examined at the weekly Grand Rounds conference held by the Division of Dermatology. Clinical faculty members will discuss the clinical presentation and biopsy results of each patient and offer diagnosis and treatment recommendations to the referring physician. Dermatopathology faculty play a key role in this discussion by clarifying pathologic findings and working with clinical faculty for appropriate clinicopathologic correlation.

Fellows must be board-certified or board-eligible in anatomic pathology or dermatology.

The Dermatopathology Fellowship takes place in state-of-the-art facilities at the WashU Medicine Dermatopathology Center.  Our center is located in Cortex, the bioscience hub of St. Louis, and operates as an independent laboratory with dedicated staff, including experienced histotechnologists and clinical support specialists.  The facility features a spacious sign-out room with a multiheaded microscope, individual office spaces for attendings and fellows, and an immunofluorescence microscope to support advanced diagnostic work.

For dermatology-trained fellows, additional rotations in anatomic pathology will occur at the BJC Institute of Health (BJCIH) on the WashU Medicine campus.  For pathology-trained fellows, additional exposure to clinical dermatology will occur at the BJH Center for Outpatient Health, where they will have the opportunity to work with various faculty members from the Division of Dermatology.