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2010 Fellowship & Job Market Surveys
A Report on the 2010 RISE, FISE, FISHE, and TMISE Surveys
Each year the ASCP Resident Council directs an annual survey on fellowships and the job market for pathologists in training, including residents and fellows. The surveys are conducted as part of the Resident In-Service Examination (RISE) and the Fellow Forensic In-Service Examination (FISE), the Fellow In-Service Hematopathology Examination (FISHE), and the Fellow Transfusion Medicine In-Service Exam (TMISE). These data are compiled by ASCP to provide information useful to all pathology trainees, residency and fellowship program directors, and prospective employers. Read the entire report.

ASCP in Chicago Tribune on Gene Patents
ASCP leaders were quoted in the April 2 Chicago Tribune cover story, "Who owns your genes?" ASCP President Mark H. Stoler, MD, FASCP, and ASCP Executive Vice President John R. Ball, MD, JD, FASCP, hailed the recent ruling against holding patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer. Read the entire story here . . .

President Clinton Proud to Work with ASCP in Africa
The Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative and ASCP have become partners in a global project to improve the quality of laboratories in Africa. On July 27, 2009, in Kigali, Rwanda, government health officials from 13 African countries launched the first-ever push for accreditation of the continent’s medical laboratories. more...