Pathologist Assistant Skills Checklist

Specimen Processing (in the absence of grossing assistant)

Specimen receipt verification and labeling*

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Accessioning*

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Surgical Pathology

Performing frozen sections*

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Using cryostat*

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Gross Description & Dissection of Specimens

Large (Major resections)*

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Medium (uterus/benign colon etc)*

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Small (gall bladder, hernia, sac, etc)*

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Biopsies*

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Commonalities of Surgical and Autopsy Pathology

Obtaining and submitting tissues for additional analytic procedures*

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Assisting in photographing gross and microscopic specimens*

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Autopsy Pathology

Overall postmortem technique

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Reviewing Medical records

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Developing preliminary autopsy diagnosis

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Gross Exam

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Initiating and assisting performance of post-mortem examinations

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Evisceration

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Removal of brain and spinal cord

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Exam Findings

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Other Skills

LIS/HIS: Copath*

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Cerner*

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Other (rate)*

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List Types:

Requisition review*

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Voice recognition software*

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Appropriate selection of material for photographs*

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Billing Processes/CPT coding*

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