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The UNC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine offers a wide variety of subspecialty training programs (fellowships) for those desiring more specialized training in anatomic pathology or laboratory medicine. These subspecialty fellowships are open to UNC pathology residents who have completed their general residency training program and desire a post-residency fellowship experience. Individuals having completed residency training at other institutions are also encouraged to apply for these fellowships. The Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Immunology, Clinical Microbiology, and Laboratory Genetics & Genomics fellowships are also open to individuals with a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in an area related to the fellowship. The 11 clinical fellowships currently offered are listed below.

An accredited, two-year postdoctoral training program that leads to eligibility for certification by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry and prepares the trainee for a career in laboratory medicine in clinical, educational, or research roles.

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An accredited, two-year postdoctoral training program that leads to eligibility for board certification. The fellowship prepares individuals to direct a clinical immunology laboratory.

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An accredited, two-year postdoctoral training program that leads to eligibility for certification by the American Board of Medical Microbiology. The fellowship prepares individuals to direct clinical and public health microbiology laboratories.

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An accredited, one-year, post-residency fellowship that leads to eligibility for subspecialty certification by the American Board of Pathology and includes experience with fine needle aspirations.

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An accredited, one-year, post-residency fellowship that leads to eligibility for subspecialty certification by the American Board of Pathology. The training program is located in the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which is in Raleigh, NC.

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An accredited, one-year, post-residency fellowship that leads to eligibility for subspecialty certification by the American Board of Pathology. The training program provides experience in the management and medical supervision of a high-volume hematology laboratory, the evaluation of peripheral blood smears, bone marrow and lymph node biopsies, and the various procedures conventionally grouped together as special hematology.

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An accredited, three-year postdoctoral program that includes training in both Clinical Molecular Genetics and Clinical Cytogenetics and leads to eligibility for certification by the American Board of Medical Genetics (ABMGG).

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UNC has the first accredited, one-year, post-residency fellowship leading to eligibility for subspecialty certification by the American Board of Pathology and the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics. The training program promotes competence in molecular procedures (in situ hybridization/FISH, DNA sequencing, DNA/cDNA amplification, gene expression profiling and SNP chips) applied across a wide range of disorders (oncology, immunology, infections, identity, and heritable disease).

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This one-year, combination fellowship and instructorship is for Board-eligible or Board-certified anatomic pathologists desiring experience in diagnostic surgical pathology and the opportunity to sign out cases independently.

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An accredited, one-year, post-residency fellowship that leads to eligibility for subspecialty certification by the American Board of Pathology. The fellowship provides training in advanced immunohematology, therapeutic and donor apheresis, blood component donation, testing, preparation and storage, clinical coagulation, histocompatibility, hematopoietic progenitor cell collections and processing, and clinical support for an academic tertiary care hospital.

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