Evolving Paradigms of Clinical Pathology Resident Education and Consultation

In the complex arena of medical resident education, real-time tools have become increasingly valuable for documenting medical knowledge and practice-based learning, as well as providing, in some cases, training exercises in and of themselves (1–4). For clinical pathol-ogy in particular, the myriad of consultative activities of the laboratory medicine resident have always been a difficult area for documentation since these consultations are not routinely included in the patient chart in most institutions. Moreover, this lack of a common venue for documentation of direct patient care activities in clinical pathology limits appropriate dissemination of this infor-mation among pathology (and other) house staff and similarly can limit “institutional memory ” of important clinical principles and facts, especially those that may b