Hematopathology Fellowship
Program Description
The Hematopathology Fellowship at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute is an ACGME-accredited, one-year comprehensive training program. The fellows are expected to achieve proficiency in the core competencies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) after the one-year ACGME-accredited hematopathology program training.
We strive to train independent hematopathologists to acquire state-of-the-art diagnostic skills and clinical research knowledge, and to foster the pursuit of academic or specialty practice careers. The program is intended to benefit highly motivated candidates to get extensive training in neoplastic hematopathology at a clinically demanding tertiary cancer center in Tampa, Florida, a beautiful beach-side city. The structure of our clinical fellowship provides one core year of training in diagnostic hematopathology to meet eligibility for the subspecialty certification in Hematology given by the American Board of Pathology.
Our program is mainly based in the Hematopathology and Laboratory Medicine Department at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute (9.5 months) with mandatory rotations at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital (1 month), Tampa General Hospital (1 month), and Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg for 2 weeks.
At Moffitt, the fellows are responsible for the daily direction of a busy bone marrow/lymph node/peripheral blood clinical service and mentoring both pathology residents and medical oncology fellows. They will become proficient in the evaluation of hematopathologic materials by exposure to approximately 5,800 in-house and 2,500-consultation bone marrows, 11,000 flow cytometry analyses, 4,000 in-house and consultation lymph nodes, 2,000 fine needle aspirates of lymph node, and more than 14,000 peripheral blood smears and body fluids yearly. The fellows are trained to utilize an interpretive approach based on state-of-the-art ancillary diagnostic methods including cytochemistry, immunohistochemistry, molecular diagnostics, imaging analysis and in situ hybridization.
The fellows are also expected to become familiar with laboratory instrumentation and compliance requirements, acquiring the skills needed to manage a hematology laboratory in the future based on ACGME-designed milestones for Hematopathology Fellowship Program. At other sites, the fellows will be exposed to other hematologic disorders, particularly benign conditions, to enhance their general knowledge in cytogenetics, pediatric hematopathology, hemoglobinapathies and coagulation.
Additionally, according to ACGME, each fellow is obligated to complete minimal one quality improvement project during the fellowship training. The program is flexible and tailoring the training to individual interests upon different career design. Each one-year clinical fellow is encouraged to participate in clinical or translational research, case studies and rare case reports under the supervision of attending hematopathologist(s) with the expectation of publication in peer-reviewed journals and presentation at institutional, regional and/or national conferences.
Eligibility
All applicants must have completed a U.S. anatomic and clinical pathology residency program and be certified or at least board-eligible by the American Board of Pathology, Anatomic and/or Clinical Pathology, by the start date of the fellowship (July 1).
Number of Positions
2 positions / 1-year program
Deadline
Applicants should send their completed application forms and all required documents to our program 18 months prior to the fellowship start date.
How to Apply
- Application (Word) or use the standard application form at www.CAP.org
- Updated CV
- Personal statement
- Copies of USMLE scores
- Submit a minimum three letters of recommendation (including one from your current residency program director or department chair)
- Certified copy of your currently valid ECFMG certificate(applicable for International Medical Graduates only)
- Send all information to Ling Zhang, MD, Program Director
- Our program will participate in a national match for enrollment of applicants for 2026-2027 academic year. Please use the Society of Hematopathology to learn more about the “Hematopathology Fellowship Match”
Salary and Benefits
Program Director
Ling Zhang, MD
Senior Member/Full Professor
Program Director, Hematopathology Fellowship
Ling.Zhang@moffitt.org
GME Program Administrator
Program Administrator - TBA
For questions and submit program applications, please send them to:
Beliza Rohena, C-TAGME
GME Supervisor
813-745-54787
Beliza.Rohena@Moffitt.org