Skills Checklist - Pathologist Assistant

This Skills Checklist is a self-evaluation to assess your recent experience in various clinical settings focusing on the past 2 years.

0 = No Experience
1 = Some Experience
2 = Intermittent Experience
3 = Experienced
4 = Very Experienced

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SPECIMEN PROCESSING(IN THE ABSENCE OF GROSSING ASSISTANT)

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Specimen receipt verification and labeling
Accessioning

SURGICAL PATHOLOGY

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Performing frozen sections
Using cryostat

Gross description & dissection of specimens:

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Large (Major resections)
Medium (uterus/benign colon etc)
Small (gall bladder, hernia, sac, etc)
Biopsies

COMMONALITIES OF SURGICAL AND AUTOPSY PATHOLOGY

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Obtaining and submitting tissues for additional analytic procedures (flow cytometry, image analysis, cultures toxicology, etc.)
Assisting in photographing gross and microscopic specimens

AUTOPSY PATHOLOGY

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Overall postmortem technique
Reviewing Medical records
Developing preliminary autopsy diagnosis
Gross Exam (weight, measurement, and description of organs)
Initiating and assisting performance of post-mortem examinations
Evisceration
Removal of brain and spinal cord
Exam Findings

OTHER SKILLS

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LIS/HIS: Copath
Cerner
Other (rate)
Requisition review
Voice recognition software (e.g. dragon)
Appropriate selection of material for photographs
Billing Processes/CPT coding

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Attestation

I certify that the information provided above accurately reflects education received and my experience in each of the clinical areas identified, particularly within the last 2 years. I hereby authorize Alliant Personnel Resources (The Company) to collect, store, and release any information that I have provided in this Skills Checklist and/or any other documentation and information they have collected or that I have submitted in any form to its parent company(s), its subsidiaries, or other subcontractors/its service providers as it deems necessary in its business operations as well as to individuals and companies in relation to consideration of employment as a Healthcare Professional with those companies and individuals. I acknowledge that The Company will take precaution and care to protect my personal information that is collected/stored/shared but cannot guarantee permanent data security and I release The Company from all related liability for damages or punitive liability.

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