Welcome to pathkids.com! The website for Southwest England Histopathology Trainees

Updated October 2011 (Plymouth). I am now a busy consultant at Derriford Plymouth so apologies for the less frequent updates!

The 2011 training diary page as it currently stands. We are still looking for speakers for the autumn sessions. Remember you can look at previous presentations on the 2010 training diary, 2009 training diary and 2008, 2007, and 2006 diary pages

This is a Head and Neck cytology and histology quiz based on a series of real cases I reported in a one-stop head and neck clinic. The first six may not be diagnosable on screen but are included to demonstrate some of the technical difficulties with head and neck cytology (eg. why it is important to spread the material properly on the slides). The link should be working now!

 Pathkids recommends the following books for trainees preparing for the FRCPath examination.

I am happy to say that Dr Rob Hadden, ST2 at Exeter is still organising the training days.

A  section of the site is _EQA which includes links to online slide seminars from general and speciality EQA schemes, great revision cases!

There are now several word files of example questions for MRCPath exams in this folder, and it now also includes  advice on pre-exam courses.  Thanks very much to those of you who contributed, please forward any more example questions to me

Updated 2009 staging of gynae cancers, and 2009 update on uterine sarcomas

The main training page also has a link to previous years diaries where you can download some of the presentations given. I don't have all the powerpoint presentations on file, so if any of you have one that is not currently posted here pls let me know and i will upload it after i have asked the consultant's permission.

The Teaching section has links to some powerpoint presentations from medical student and pathology trainee tutorials. Remember most of the useful presentations are linked from the training diary

The current email list is here, updated Oct 2009 - again please contact me with alterations and additions

There are some useful websites for your training on the links page

This website is under construction and hence some of the links may not currently work; sometimes links do not load and may need to be "refreshed". Please let me know about any dead links, and visit regularly for updates.

You are visitor number to the new improved Pathkids site since December 2008!

Please contact me for further information; any suggestions would be most welcome

Dr Tim Bracey

Consultant Pathologist

Derriford Hospital Plymouth