Table 1. American Medical Association Listing of All Pathologists (Without Residents and Retirees).
| Specialty description | Pathologists, No. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administration | Full-time hospital staff | Locum tenens | Medical teaching | Not classified | Office-based practice | Other | Research | Semiretired | Total | |
| Anatomic pathology | 29 | 257 | 2 | 46 | 15 | 359 | 64 | 116 | 30 | 918 |
| Blood bank | 75 | 130 | 0 | 21 | 183 | 298 | 26 | 22 | 10 | 765 |
| Clinical informatics (pathology)a | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Clinical pathology | 88 | 72 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 102 | 26 | 70 | 23 | 399 |
| Dermatopathology | 3 | 124 | 0 | 24 | 159 | 717 | 63 | 9 | 1 | 1100 |
| Forensic pathology | 23 | 96 | 0 | 12 | 155 | 441 | 159 | 3 | 31 | 920 |
| Hematology (pathology) | 4 | 221 | 1 | 38 | 439 | 711 | 44 | 10 | 3 | 1471 |
| Molecular (genetic) pathology | 3 | 22 | 1 | 21 | 169 | 87 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 321 |
| Medical microbiology | 6 | 18 | 0 | 7 | 34 | 37 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 112 |
| Neuropathology | 5 | 60 | 1 | 37 | 121 | 148 | 10 | 49 | 8 | 439 |
| Chemical pathology | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 30 |
| Cytopathology | 3 | 263 | 0 | 59 | 488 | 769 | 30 | 3 | 3 | 1618 |
| Pediatric pathology | 0 | 61 | 0 | 13 | 96 | 86 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 268 |
| Anatomic/clinical pathology | 331 | 2394 | 19 | 328 | 1761 | 5705 | 641 | 342 | 284 | 11 805 |
| Selective pathologyb | NA | 128 | NA | 44 | 485 | 431 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1113 |
| Total | 575 | 3848 | 24 | 666 | 4120 | 9905 | 1106 | 646 | 402 | 21 292 |
Abbreviation: NA, not applicable.
a
The American Board of Pathology and a second American Board may certify the same subspecialty. The numbers provided are only for those candidates the American Board of Pathology has certified.
b
Selective pathology is not an American Board of Pathology–certified subspecialty but indicates when a pathologist has successfully completed a recognized fellowship training program in a subspecialty (eg, general surgical pathology or gastrointestinal surgical pathology) that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education reviews.