Hartford Hospital is an 815-bed general and tertiary care teaching hospital and transplantation center affiliated with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The department provides pathology services for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, a separate 128 bed pediatric hospital on the Hartford Hospital campus. 

Fully approved residency training is available in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology; fellowship training is also available in surgical pathology, cytopathology, and hematopathology. The educational goal of the residency program is to provide the housestaff with a solid knowledge base in both anatomic and clinical pathology and to help the individual develop effective methods for approaching and solving problems.

 

There were 124 hospital autopsies performed at Hartford Hospital in 2005. During this time, 36,126 surgical tissues were processed including 3,544 intraoperative consultations. The cytology laboratory examined around 53,242 gynecologic specimens and 4,043 non-gynecologic specimens, including fine needle aspirations from all body sites. Over 2.8 million tests were performed in the Hartford Hospital laboratories during 2005.

 

The mission of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is to provide the highest quality of laboratory services in keeping with the Hartford Hospital’s mission and organizational values. The partnership between Hartford Hospital and Clinical Laboratory Partners, a commercial laboratory, exposes housestaff to a multitude of laboratory management issues. The clinical laboratories are well equipped and automated with research and development sections in Hematology Microbiology and Molecular Pathology.

 

In addition to the stated summary of benefits, residents are encouraged to attend and present at local and national meetings; the Mead Fund provides monies to support educational travel and/or purchase of educational material.

 

The hospital library contains more than 65,000 books and bound volumes, including 1,186 journal titles and is supplemented by an excellent departmental library. There is also access to the libraries of the Hartford Medical Society and the University of Connecticut Medical Center. A hospital maintained gymnasium and indoor swimming poor are available for resident use. And parking is free for residents.