---
title: 'Episode 115: Dr Jonathan Jacobs - Pathology Trainees as Laboratory Consultants'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-115-dr-jonathan-jacobs-pathology-trainees-as-laboratory-consultants'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2022-06-13'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i9ac6x/Dr_Jonathan_Jacobs_-_6_12_22_742_PMb3mws.mp3'
---

# Episode 115: Dr Jonathan Jacobs - Pathology Trainees as Laboratory Consultants

Today my guest is Pathology Resident Dr Jonathan Jacobs What we discuss with Dr Jacobs: How he switched from engineering to medicine Working as an EMT Starting in Internal Medicine and transferring to Pathology How he became interested in cytopathology W...

## Summary

Today my guest is Pathology Resident Dr Jonathan Jacobs

What we discuss with Dr Jacobs:

- How he switched from engineering to medicine

- Working as an EMT

- Starting in Internal Medicine and transferring to Pathology

- How he became interested in cytopathology

- Why a social media presence is important for pathology residency programs

- The paper he co-authored, Pathology Trainees Gain Clinical Pathology Experience as Lab Consultants Through Auditing Myeloid Mutation Panel Send-Out Tests, and the project on which it was based

- The response from clinicians about this project

- How the pathology residents felt about the experience they gained from this

- How this idea could be used to audit other lab tests

Links for this episode:

[Health Podcast Network](https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

[ LabVine Learning](http://bit.ly/labvine)

[Doctors on Social Media](http://doctorsonsocialmedia.com/)

[The ConfLab from LabVine](https://www.labvinelearning.com/TheConflab)

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University of Maryland Pathology Residents:

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/UMPathology)

[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/umpathology/?hl=en)

[Pathology Trainees Gain Clinical Pathology Experience as Lab Consultants Through Auditing Myeloid Mutation Panel Send-Out Tests: Hitting Two Birds With One Stone?](https://meridian.allenpress.com/aplm/article/doi/10.5858/arpa.2021-0334-EP/477171/Pathology-Trainees-Gain-Clinical-Pathology)

People of Pathology Podcast:

[Website](https://peopleofpathology.com/)

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/peopleofpath)