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Training and
Education Committee Report
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By Jennifer L. Hunt, MD
Chair, Training and Education Committee
e-mail:
huntj2@ccf.org |
In January, the Training and Education (T&E)
Committee welcomed two new junior members for 2009:
Allison Ali Cushman-Vokoun and Kandelaria Ande
Rumilla. There were a number of absolutely excellent
applicants for these positions, and we would like to thank
all of the highly qualified trainees who applied. It was a
difficult decision! We expect a lot of our Trainee
Representatives, both in terms of representing and getting
feedback from trainee members of AMP and with specific
assignments throughout the year, especially at the AMP
Annual Meeting. If trainees have specific issues that they
want to bring to the T&E Committee, please feel free to
contact Ali (allison.m.cushman-vokoun@vanderbilt.edu)
or Ande (Rumilla.Kandelaria@mayo.edu).
The T&E Committee is very excited by the
enthusiasm generated by our first Case-of-the-Month
on-line. If you have not had the chance to look at this
very interesting and intriguing case, you can access it from
the AMP website under Education or by following this link
www.amp.org/molecularcasestudies/casestudies.htm. The
Committee would like to thank Matt Bankowski (T&E
Infectious Diseases Subdivision Representative) for heading
up this effort and for being the first presenter. Although
the subcommittee that Matt has formed will be working hard
to produce cases to post on-line, we also want to actively
solicit cases from the AMP membership. This is a great
opportunity to involve your trainees (residents and
fellows), giving them both a great experience in presenting
a case and also exposure in the molecular community. Please
send an e-mail to Matt (mbankowski@hawaii.rr.com)
if you would like to volunteer to prepare and present a
case-of-the-month.
The other
exciting initiative that T&E has been working on for 2009 is
the webinar series. Thank you to Linda Jeng (T&E
Genetics Subdivision Representative) and Jennifer
Laudadio (T&E Solid Tumors Subdivision Representative)
for Co-Chairing the subcommittee for webinar series. We are
going to be hosting four formal webinars per year, covering
each of the Subdivisions. We thank our first quarter
speaker for 2009, Jonathan Diver, who presented a
wonderful webinar session on JAK2 and MPL
Mutation Testing in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms. There
were almost 400 registrants for the session and it was very
well received. We will soon be announcing the titles,
speakers, and dates for the Solid Tumor Session, Infectious
Diseases Session and Genetics Session for the remaining
three quarters. If you have a topic or speaker suggestion,
please send an e-mail to Jennifer (jlaudadi@wfubmc.edu)
or Linda (jengl@labmed2.ucsf.edu).
The
Molecular Genetic Pathology Review Course held April 30
May 3 in Rockville, Maryland was a tremendous success, with
57 attendees! It is clear that this course fills a need
beyond preparing for the MGP exam. Several came from
overseas to attend this intensive and comprehensive
molecular pathology course. Many thanks are due to
Kevin Halling
(Director), Bobby
Boyanton (Associate Director), the faculty, and
staff for their hard work! The lectures were recorded; the
online version of this course will be available in July -
see
www.amp.org/mgp2009/
for more details
Finally,
T&E is gearing up to begin plans for the Annual Meeting. We
will be hosting the introductory molecular pathology course,
which is intended to offer a special day of basic molecular
pathology to pathologists from the local and regional
communities. The course will be refreshed this year, with
new topics and a new format. Look for more information on
the course as the year progresses. |