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Causes: Health, Medical Disciplines
Mission: The official organization representing the departments of pathology and laboratory medicine accredited by the liason committee for medical education.
Programs: Annual meeting:department chairs(apc),program directors(prods),undergraduate medical educators(umedfs),department administrators(pdas) and program coordinators(gmeas) meet concurrently and in overlapping sessions of mutual interest, in an intimate setting for exchanging ideas and information on current and cutting edge topics in practice management, medical education,and research. The overarching theme of the 2017 meeting was pathology and population health.
membership benefits including website, newsletters, etc. The association keeps an active website and other electronic networking solutions to disseminate information and ideas for chairs, program directors, department administrators, and course directors. The association surveys all united states and canadian medical schools to discover best practices and disseminates this information to their membership. The association sends representatives to meetings to discuss current and future issues in pathology discipline. Additionally, the association has an active committee that meets to look at regulatory and policy issues that affect the organization's mission,
academic pathology is an open access journal and the official peer-reviewed publication of the apc. The journal seeks to address methods for improving patient care (clinical informatics, genomic testing and data management, lab automation, electronic health record integration, and annotate biorepositories); best practices in inter-professional clinical partnerships; innovative pedagogical approaches to medical education and educational program evaluation in pathology; models for training academic pathologist and advancing academic career development; administrative and organizational models supporting the discipline; and leadership development in academic medical centers,health systems, and other relevant venues. Intended authorship and audiences for academic pathology are international and reach beyond academic pathology itself, including but nor limited to healthcare providers,educators,researchers and policy-makers.
jobs board income provides a networking opportunity for members to pursue new positions in their respective fields. Additionally,revenue from the journal stipend help to offset administration expense in the organizaton.