Passport to pathology: transforming the medical student pathology elective from a passive educational experience to an exciting, immersive clinical rotation

In the United States, third- and fourth-year medical students are exposed to a variety of rigorous clinical rotations ranging from four to twelve weeks in duration. Regardless of the specialty that a student ultimately plans to pursue, all medical students are required to take clinical rotations including surgery, medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, neurology, and outpatient/family practice. A student planning to specialize in psychiatry, for example, is not exempt from closing an incision in an operative case or from assisting in a laparoscopic procedure during a general surgery rotation.

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