Pathology Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

Digital Pathology Association

• Description: The Digital Pathology Association (DPA), a non-profit organization committed to the advancement of digital pathology applications in healthcare, announces its formation and welcomes all members of the digital pathology community worldwide to join.
• Quality: "Digital pathology is a dynamic, image-based environment that enables the acquisition, management and interpretation of pathology information generated from a digitized glass slide."

Pathological Society

• Description: "The Society has endeavoured to reflect the interests of its members and these interests have consistently been towards the advancement of pathology and understanding disease. From morbid anatomy to molecular biology, from histochemistry to in situ hybridisation."
• Quality: "The Pathological Society has been in existence for more than a century with the object of advancing pathology and allied sciences."

Pathology Community on MEDPEDIA

• Description: "For all topics in the realm of anatomy and pathology."
• Quality: Medpedia is a medical encyclopaedia managed and edited by medical professionals.

PathXchange

• Description: "PathXchange.org (Px) is a vendor-neutral, not-for-profit professional networking portal for the global pathology community, promoting digital pathology."
• Quality: "Px brings the field of pathology into the digital age with Web 2.0 features designed to promote exchange of pathological cases, ideas, knowledge, information, products, and services."

Student Doctor Network - Pathology Forum

• Description: "The mission of SDN is to assist and encourage all students through the challenging and complicated healthcare education process."
• Quality: "With over 200,000 members and well over 8 million posts, our community can answer practically any question you may have, from college through medical practice."

ValueMD - Pathology Forum

• Description: "ValueMD provides a free platform for the exchange of medically related information for prospective and current medical students, as well as physicians and other health care workers."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous pathology groups:

American Society of Clinical Pathology

• Description and content: "ASCP is the world's largest society of pathologists and laboratory professionals comprising pathologists, doctoral-level laboratory scientists, and a host of laboratory professionals, including pathologists' assistants, medical laboratory scientists, cytotechnologists, histotechnologists, histologic technicians, phlebotomists, medical laboratory technicians, and numerous laboratory specialists."

Anatomy and Pathology

• Description and content: "A group for people interested in anatomy and /or Pathology. Please feel free to add comments (relavent), pictures, stories or websites. Any branch of anatomy or pathology is welcome, pediatic, cytology, forensic....Lets try and educate."

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

• Description and content: "Welcome to the Facebook group of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (APLM). APLM is the monthly, international, peer-reviewed journal of the College of American Pathologists."

Clinical Pathology: The Science Behind The Cure

• Description and content: "This group is not only for pathologist but also any medical specialties for medical discussions, learning, vedios and media sharing, etc."

College of American Pathologists

• Description and content: "The College of American Pathologists, the leading organization of board-certified pathologists, serves patients, pathologists, and the public by fostering and advocating excellence in the practice of pathology and laboratory medicine."

Pathology

• Description and content: "For meeting and communicating with other pathologists."

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Things You Don't Find in a Pathology Textbook

• Description: "Descriptions that Pathologists use that many of us don't even know what they realing mean or what they are derived from."

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