PGY1 Salary (2024 - 2025) - $67,215
Benefits - Development (2023 - 2024)
- Annual $1,000 Book Fund
- Reimbursement for USMLE Step 3 Exam Fee (if taken as a resident)
- Reimbursement for AP and/or CP Board Exams (including exam fee, travel, hotel, meals x 3 days, if required)
- Reimbursement for travel to one conference per year (including registration fee, hotel, airfare, meals x 3 days) if first-author abstract accepted for presentation
- Free hard copy textbooks for PGY1s,including:
- Goldblum: Rosai & Ackerman Surgical Pathology, 11th ed.
- Mills: Histology for Pathologists, 5th ed.
- Connolly: Autopsy Pathology, 3rd ed.
- Harris: Medical Statistics Made Easy
- Harris: Clinical Evidence Made Easy: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine
- Cui: Histology from a Clin. Persp., 2nd ed.
- Rekhtman: Quick Ref. Hndbk. For Surg Path, 2nd ed.
- Mais: Quick Compend of CP, 4th ed.
- Five (5) week PGY1 onboarding AP boot camp
- Gap weeks between core AP rotations for PGY1s to wrap up prior rotation (Monday through Tuesday: finish cases, exit exam, exit interview) and prepare for next rotation (Wednesday through Friday: entrance interview, reading day, frozen section day, grossing day)
- Opportunity to apply for department-funded trainee mentored research awards (up to $10,000 per project per year; one funded project per resident per year)
- Opportunity to apply for department-funded Pathology Investigator Residency/Research Training Program (PIRRT) basic science training one year fellowship (Research Track Option)
- Protected CP rotations with active learning and hands on experiences (e.g., “hot seat” rounding with clinical team, solving micro unknowns, etc.)
- Progressive responsibility and sign out simulation in AP and CP (AP Acting Fellowship, Frozen Section Hot Seat, Junior Lab Director)
- Structured education in informatics, lab management and genomics
- Clinical track options: AP/CP, AP only, CP only
Benefits - Technology and Aids (2023 - 2024)
- Laptop (PC)
- Free access to:
- ExpertPath
- PATHPrimer
- Immunoquery
- AJCC Online
- WHO Classification of Tumours Online
- CMEinfo Insider
- Lab Management University
- University of Pathology Informatics
- Six Sigma (Yellow Belt)
- Numerous hard copy and digital pathology textbooks (in the pathology resident libraries and through Pitt Health Sciences Library System, respectively)
- Osler Review Series (Graduating Seniors)
- Stata/R/R Studio Packages (including 10 hrs. free Statistical assistance per project for IRB approved studies)
Benefits - Health, Wellness, and Happy Living (2023 - 2024)
- Individual health, vision, and dental insurance covered at no charge
- Access to UPMC’s vast, top-ranked health care facilities including, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Spouse/Family health and vision insurance covered at no charge
- Spouse/Family dental insurance is a nominal monthly premium
- Individual term life, AD&D, liability, and disability insurance covered at no charge
- Tuition assistance available for individual/spouse/dependent children
- 20 personal days off and five educational days off per year
- Retirement program (UPMC matches 50% of contributions up to 4% of eligible pay for vested individuals)
- Free parking or city bus pass
- UPMC Meal Allowance for each required didactic
- Free snacks and coffee/tea
- Permanent resident electric height-adjustable standing desks equipped with BX-46 microscope, dual monitors, secure file drawer, camera, mic
- Personal locker
- Scheduling flexibility and time off to attend health/well-being appointments
- Resident wellness, inclusion, diversity, and equity (resident-WIDE) champion who oversees wellness and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities for the trainees including “Wellness Wednesdays” and Upstander/IQEE training
- Fabulous city:
- Low cost of living (US Cities with the Lowest Cost of Living | Move.org)
- Plenty to do and see (Visit Pittsburgh | Official Tourism Site for Pittsburgh, PA)
- A variety of living options (city, suburb, countryside, rent, buy (Pittsburgh is the Real Estate Haven for Millennials | Birgo Insights)