Fellowship & Pdcc in Oncopathology

**Fellowship & PDCC in Oncopathology**

Conceptualized in the year 2004 as a philanthropic initiative for the Eastern and North-Eastern
parts of India and the neighboring countries, the Tata Medical Center (TMC) started operations in
Kolkata on May 16, 2011. The hospital is governed by a charitable trust - Tata Medical Centre Trust.
It is an integrated Oncology facility with well-trained professional staff and equipped with modern
facilities and the most contemporary medical equipment. The hospital was designed by Cannon
Design, a renowned architectural firm from North America. It is located on 13 acres of land at New
Town in Kolkata, West Bengal.

The hospital is an integrated Oncology facility with well-trained professional staff and equipped
with modern facilities and contemporary medical equipment. The Hospital, with a capacity of 437
beds, serves all sections of the society, with 75% of the infrastructure earmarked for subsidized
treatment for the underprivileged sections. It provides a wide spectrum of services from diagnosis
and therapy to rehabilitation and palliative support. The Institution’s objective is to excel in service,
education and research.

Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, has strived to be one of the leading cancer care and research
institutions in the country and has benefited West Bengal as well as the adjoining states and
neighboring countries.

TMC is also running many academic programmes and has entered into institutional collaborations
in education, research, and outreach programmes in the field of interdisciplinary medical, research
and technology.

From 2017 onwards, Tata Medical Center has started conducting **Post Doctoral Certificate**
**Course /Fellowship (PDCC) in Oncopathology (including Histopathology and Cytology) **under
the aegis** **of the **Indian College of Pathologists (ICP) **(vide Ref: ICP/PDCC/PR/TMC/2017/1, Dated
: 9th** **February 2017).

The course is aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the pathology of neoplastic
diseases, with an emphasis on diagnosis and reporting to help in multidisciplinary care. It also aims
to provide an overview of the molecular advancements and promote participation in research in
the field.

**Oncopathology**:
**Qualification**:
- MD Pathology or equivalent in the relevant specialty

**Experience**: Fresh MD/DNB or Equivalent

**Duration**: Two Years (extendable up to 3 years on a yearly basis based upon performance)

**Clinical Responsibilities:
Daily review and sign-out of cases:

The fellow will perform real-time review of cases involving specimens accessioned and
obtained from in house surgery, in house endoscopy, in house fine needle aspiration, and
extramural consultation related to surgical pathology.

The fellow will be responsible for gross examination of specimens. The fellow will review
the cases first without the faculty, and attempt to render diagnoses. Final discussion and
sign-out with the faculty will follow on a multi-headed microscope. It is expected that the
fellow will exercise increasing responsibility gradually in signing out of cases on their own,
with decreasing levels of supervision by the faculty.

The fellow will prepare, present, and discuss cases at interdepartmental conferences
attended by the faculty and fellows of the Department of Surgery, radiation oncology and
medical oncology.

The fellow will be expected to understand the important aspects of gross dissection of
specimens related to surgical pathology.

**Academic responsibilities:
The fellow will be encouraged to assist in ongoing research projects and to develop their
own research projects. The options for the fellow include clinical images, clinical case
reports, clinical case series, or basic science research.

**Expected Rotations/Work Schema:
**During the two years, Fellows will be exposed to different systems in histopathology like GI,

GU, GYN, Head and Neck, Breast, Bone and Soft tissue, Pulmonary, Skin, Brain and
Hematolymphoid system. In addition they will have to see cytology slides that includes
FNAC, fluid cytology and Gynecology related smears..

interest and would include 10 months subspecialty training in 2 areas and two months of
rotation in molecular genetics and cytogenetic laboratory on solid tumours and research
elective.

**Opportunities for career advancement:
The fellowship will offer cadidates careers in histopathology sections of large diagnostic
laboratories in corporate hospitals, faculty in pathology in academic medical institutions
and as onco-pathologists in oncology centres.

**Evaluation:
**(EVALUATION PROCESS WILL BE COMMON TO ALL)
In addition to the departmental review which is common to all departments, the fellow will
be evaluated by the following means:

informal daily oral examination at microscopy during review of cases

informal oral examination during daily intradepartmental morning conferences and
monthly interdepartmental conferences

formal midterm written examination

formal final writte