What is pathology?

• A-Z
  
• Glossary of terms
  
• Information about post mortems for friends and relatives v
  • Types of post mortems
  • What happens during a post mortem
  • The post mortem report
  • Coroners' inquests
  • Concerns about a post mortem
  • More information

Careers in pathology

• Explore careers by theme
  
• Careers for doctors v
  • Become a histopathologist v
    • Dr Rachel Brown, Histopathologist
    • Dr Kavitha Pai, Trainee Histopathologist
    • Dr Aeman Khalid, Trainee Histopathologist
    • Dr Angeli Arthur, Consultant Histopathologist
  • Become a haematologist v
    • Dr Joel Newman, Haematologist
    • Dr Chibuzo Mowete, Haematologist
    • Dr Sarah Wheeldon, Haematologist
  • Become a microbiologist v
    • Dr Oleg Tkachenko and Dr Fiona Cooke, Medical Microbiologists
    • Dr Francesca Heard, Infectious diseases and Microbiology trainee
    • Dr Natasha Ratnaraja, Consultant Microbiologist
  • Become a chemical pathologist v
    • Dr Ian Frayling, Consultant in Genetic Pathology
    • Dr Kate Earp, Consultant Chemical Pathologist
    • Dr Karen Mitchell, Consultant in Chemical Pathology
  • Become a neuropathologist v
    • Dr Aruna Chakarabarty, Neuropathologist
  • Become a paediatric and perinatal pathologist v
    • Dr Caroline Gannon, paediatric and perinatal pathologist
  • Become an oral and maxillofacial pathologist v
    • Dr Eranga Nissanka-Jayasuriya, oral and maxillofacial pathologist
    • Dr Manas Dave, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologist
  • Become a forensic pathologist v
    • Dr Stuart John Hamilton, Forensic Pathologist
    • Dr Megan Jenkins, Forensic Pathologist
  • Become a virologist v
    • Dr Philip Rice, Virologist
    • Dr Donall Forde, Virologist
  • Become a clinical immunologist v
    • Dr Helen Bourne, Medical Immunologist
    • Dr Lucy Leeman, Medical Immunologist
  • Other careers in pathology
• Become a consultant clinical scientist v
  • Avril Wayte, Consultant Clinical Scientist in Chemical Pathology
  • Dr Sue Avery, Consultant Clinical Scientist in Reproductive Science
  • Dr Peter Muir, Consultant Clinical Scientist in Virology
  • Dr Kimberly Gilmour, Consultant Clinical Scientist in Immunology
  • Kay Poulton, Consultant Clinical Scientist in Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
  • Dr Philippa May, Clinical Scientist in Genetics
  • Nigel Brown, Toxicologist
  • Kade Flowers, Clinical Biochemist
  • Dr Amy Barrie, Clinical Scientist in Reproductive Science
  • Dr Lowri Hughes, Principal Clinical Scientist in Genetics
  • Dr David Turner, Consultant Clinical Scientist in Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
  • Dr Josephine McCullagh; Clinical Scientist in Transfusion Science
• Become a veterinary pathologist v
  • Debra Fews, Veterinary Pathologist
  • Professor Roberto La Ragione, Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology
  • Dr Vini Pintos, Veterinary Microbiologist
  • Dr Lorenzo Ressel, Veterinary Microbiologist
• Train to work in pathology v
  • Train to be a consultant clinical scientist
  • Training in histopathology
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  • Training in forensic pathology
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  • Training in virology
  • Training in veterinary pathology
  • Training in immunology
  • Training in genetic pathology
• Meet the experts
  

Public engagement events

• National Pathology Week v
  • Previous National Pathology Weeks
• Public events calendar
  
• Register your event
  
• Public engagement training
  
• Public Engagement Coordinators v
  • Public Engagement Regional Coordinators
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  • Become a coordinator
• Key awareness days and weeks
  
• Past public events v
  • Chelsea Flower Show
  • International Pathology Day 2015 v
    • Events in hospitals
    • Events in public spaces
    • Events in schools
    • Events in science centres and museums
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Blood & Bugs
  • Our 50th anniversary v
    • Pathology in the capital
    • A history of pathology in 50 objects
• RCPath Book Club
  

Resources

• Guidance for event organisers v
  • Posters
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  • Writing up your event for the Bulletin
• Activities and resources v
  • Heart of Healthcare Art Activities
  • Split your genes
  • Veterinary pathology
  • Organs resource
  • What does your poo say about you?
  • Resistance is futile
  • Cancel cancer
  • Urine trouble
  • Sometimes pathology is about the dead
  • There once was a cow called Blossom
  • Human Tissue Resource
  • My heart belongs to you: organ donation
  • To screen or not to screen
  • Storm in a test tube
  • Point of Care Testing
  • Living Autopsy
  • Your Body Your Consent - a workshop on medical ethics
  • Pathology For Life
  • Blood and Bugs resources
  • Incredible You
  • Pathology Careers Talks for Schools: How-to videos and resources
  • Hands-on activity video guides
  • Disease detectives
  • Give it a Shot
  • Split Your Genes Online Workshop
  • Viral Art
  • Choose your own pathology adventure
  • Viruses and Vaccines
  • Home activity hub
  • School Science Conference 2022
  • Discovering Cells
• Presentations
  
• Quizzes
  
• Event templates
  
• Public engagement videos
  

Competitions

• Essay competitions
  
• Art of Pathology Competition
  
• Register your event and win a prize
  
• RCPath Science Communication Prize v
  • Previous winners
• National Pathology Week Competitions
  

Membership

• Member benefits v
• How to join the College v
  • Fellows by Election
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• Existing members v
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• Country bandings
  
• Affiliate registration
  
• Subscription fees 2025
  
• The value of membership
  
• Who we are
  

Corporate membership

• Our corporate members v
  • Illumina
  • 3DHISTECH
  • Epredia
  • Roche Diagnostics

Undergraduates and Foundation doctors

• Pathology Undergraduate Curriculum
  
• Undergraduate and Foundation resources
  
• Foundation doctors
  
• Join our pathology summer school v
  • Summer School Feedback v
    • More summer school reviews
• RCPath Foundation Fellowships v
  • Apply for an RCPath Foundation Fellowship
• Medical Electives Scheme v
  • Apply for the RCPath/Specialist Society elective award scheme

News

• Factsheets v
  • Pathology Facts and Figures
  • Antibiotic resistance and microbiology
  • Haematology
  • Histopathology
  • What is a biopsy?
  • What is chemical pathology?
• President's newsletter
  
• Become a spokesperson for the College
  

Blogs

Public affairs

• Cancer diagnostics
  
• The pathology workforce
  
• Background to medical examiners v
• Genomics in medicine
  
• Patient safety on the agenda
  
• Death certification and post-mortems
  
• The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Diagnostics
  
• Antimicrobial resistance – A position statement from the Royal College of Pathologists
  
• Bringing diagnosis closer to patients
  

Videos

• The Art and Science of Practical Management
  
• What can pathology do to reduce health inequalities
  
• A celebration of Diwali
  
• Communication in IPC: Spreading the message rather than infection!
  
• Discover Pathology – Session 1: Molecular Pathology
  
• Death Certification Reforms Legislation – implications for the medical examiner system online information-sharing event, 17 January 2024
  
• Paediatric Lymphoma - webinar 1
  
• Paediatric Lymphoma - webinar 2
  
• PathQuest: Exploring careers in Neuropathology & Paediatric Pathology
  
• Autoinflammatory disease update - Webinar
  
• Fungal Update - Fungal infections in haematology-oncology patients webinar
  
• An update on DNA mismatch repair immunohistochemistry webinar
  
• How I report inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) biopsies webinar
  
• Can we beat respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) - what’s new and what’s on the horizon - webinar
  
• Defining Adverse Effects in Non-clinical Toxicity Studies
  
• Penicillin allergy/GA allergy/drug allergy update - webinar
  
• Gestational Trophoblastic Disease - Webinar 2
  
• Risk assessment in pT1 colorectal cancer – webinar
  
• Autopsy webinar series - When to refer to a forensic pathologist
  
• Death Certification Reforms Legislation – update on implications for the Medical Examiner system online information-sharing event, 11 June 2024
  
• Gestational Trophoblastic Disease - Webinar 1
  
• Hereditary Angioedema; pathophysiology, drug targets and update on management webinar
  
• Autopsy webinar series – Diabetes and the autopsy
  
• Learning lessons from coroners’ reports – Preventable Deaths Tracker
  
• RCPath/BDIAP Taster Event 2024
  
• How drug-related deaths analysis can inform coronial investigations
  
• Diagnostic Neurobiomarkers - webinar
  
• Autopsy webinar series – Sickle cell disease
  
• Autopsy webinar series - Post Mortem CT
  
• Autopsy webinar series – The Human Tissue Authority
  
• An update on feline soft tissue sarcomas; where are we now, and where do we go next?
  
• Autopsy webinar series - Resuscitation and pre-hospital care-related injuries
  
• UKAS accreditation: the importance of clinical engagement with quality assurance - webinar
  
• Analytical considerations for detecting and quantifying novel synthetic opioids, including ‘nitazenes’, in biological samples - webinar
  
• The role of pathology in farm animal disease surveillance - webinar
  
• Autopsy webinar series – Fire related deaths
  
• Autopsy webinar series – Pulmonary fibrosis
  
• Cytology of the Respiratory System and Thorax - webinar
  
• Liver Pathology Bitesize Webinars - An approach to the medical liver biopsy
  
• Autopsy webinar series – Cardiac pathology for the non-specialist
  
• Epipathology: pathology and epidemiology in conservation medicine
  
• Liver Pathology Bitesize Webinars - Biliary diseases
  

Pathologists in Profile Podcast Series

• January 2022 podcast with Nigel Brown
  
• February 2022 podcast with Miren Iturriza-Gómara
  
• March 2022 podcast with Dr Bernie Croal
  
• April 2022 podcast with Reverend Dr Jenny McKay
  
• May 2022 podcast with Professor Marta Cohen OBE
  
• June 2022 podcast with Dr Brendan Healy
  
• July 2022 podcast with Dr Ben Uttenthal
  
• August 2022 podcast with Dr Arthi Anand
  
• September 2022 podcast with Dr Zane Jaunmuktane
  
• October 2022 podcast with Dr Bryan Woodward
  
• November 2022 podcast with Dr Shuayb Elkhalifa
  
• December 2022 podcast with Professor Ali Khurram
  
• February 2023 podcast with Heidi Doughty
  
• June 2023 podcast with Dr Matt Ceika
  
• September 2023 podcast with Meena Upadhyaya
  

Diamond Jubilee

• Events and activities for members
  
• Living Autopsy Tour
  
• 60 at 60 – People in pathology
  

COVID-19: information for trainees

• FRCPath Examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic
  

Training

• Trainee news
  
• Recruitment into pathology
  
• Register as a trainee v
  • Registration information for new trainees
  • Online registration form for dual trainees
• Guidance and forms for medical trainees
  
• New Trainee Welcome Day v
  • New Trainee Welcome Days 2024
  • New Trainee Welcome Days 2023
• Training by specialty v
  • Analytical Toxicology HSST
  • Chemical Pathology
  • Clinical Biochemistry HSST
  • Clinical Immunology HSST
  • Diagnostic Neuropathology
  • Forensic Histopathology
  • Genetics HSST
  • Haematology HSST
  • Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics HSST
  • Histopathology
  • Medical Microbiology
  • Medical Virology
  • Microbiology HSST
  • Molecular Pathology HSST
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Pathology
  • Reproductive Science HSST
  • Transfusion Science HSST
  • Virology HSST
  • Veterinary Clinical Pathology
  • Veterinary Pathology
  • Veterinary Microbiology
• Curriculum update v
  • Standards for Review
• Specialist registration v
  • CCT application pack
  • The Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) v
    • Specialty specific guidance – CCT specialties
    • Credentials Panel members
  • Existing Specialists
  • Specialist Registration FAQ
• Register as a veterinary pathology trainee
  

Webinars: What I Wish I’d Known

Assessment

• Learning Environment for Pathology Trainees (LEPT) system v
  • The LEPT system

Examinations

• Examinations by Specialty v
  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Dermatopathology
  • Forensic Pathology
  • Genetics
  • Haematology
  • Haematology Clinical Science
  • Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
  • Histopathology
  • Immunology
  • Infection
  • Medical Genetics
  • Medical Microbiology
  • Molecular Pathology
  • Neuropathology
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
  • Paediatric Pathology
  • Reproductive Science
  • Toxicology
  • Transfusion Science
  • Veterinary Clinical Pathology
  • Veterinary Pathology
  • Virology
• Examination News and Dates v
  • Autumn 2025 Examination Dates
  • Spring 2025 Examination Dates
• Regulations, Guidelines and Policies v
  • Regulations, Guidelines and Policies Documents
  • Frequently Asked Questions
• Apply and Pay Online v
  • Examination applications v
• Examination Results v
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• Examiners Area v
  • Become an examiner
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  • Information for examiners
• BMS Examinations - Histopathology Reporting
  

Cost of training

• Breakdown of costs
  
• Minimising cost
  
• Cost of exams
  
• Tax deductibility
  

Preparing to be a new consultant

On the agenda

• COVID-19 testing: a national strategy
  
• Supply Disruption of BD Vacutainer Blood Specimen Collection Tubes
  

College responses

• Consultations
  

SAS Doctors

Clinical Impact Awards

Patient safety and quality improvement

• Raising concerns in pathology v
  • Performance review guides
  • Our invited reviews service
• Conducting a clinical audit v
  • The clinical audit process
  • Standards for a clinical audit
  • Writing a clinical audit report
  • Our audit certification scheme
  • Guidance for audit evaluators
  • Published high quality clinical audits
  • Clinical audit templates
• Patient safety bulletins
  
• Patient safety and CQI resources v
  • College Resources for cqi and Patient Safety Awareness
  • Choosing Wisely initiative v
    • Pathology-related Choosing Wisely recommendations
    • Recommendations for Transfusion Medicine
    • Recommendations for Clinical Biochemistry
    • Recommendations for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
  • A3 problem solving tools v
    • Guide to an A3 problem solving report
    • Published high quality A3 problem solving reports
  • External resources for quality improvement
  • Patient safety awareness campaign resources
• Technical EQA v
  • EQA Event – 4 November 2022

Coronavirus: COVID-19 resources hub

• Coronavirus: Updates from the President
  
• Series 1 COVID-19 pandemic: video-based learning v
• COVID-19 post-mortem portal and results
  
• International Response to Covid-19
  
• A guide to COVID-19 tests for the public
  
• Series 2 COVID-19 pandemic: video-based learning
  

Conferences

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• Conferences and CPD events calendar v
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• Our venue: Events @ No 6
  

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• Register for CPD v
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• Your CPD portfolio
  
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• Your Guide to CPD
  
• CPD information for course and event suppliers v
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• Other CPD activities
  
• CPD credit tables
  
• Your CPD return
  

Appraisal and revalidation

• Appraisal and revalidation FAQs
  
• Remediation
  
• Doctors returning to practice
  
• The use of titles, qualifications and honours
  

Guidelines

• Cancer datasets and tissue pathways v
  • Webinar Programme: Cancer datasets and tissue pathways - Guidance for implementation
• Cross-specialty publications
  
• Specialty-specific publications
  
• Autopsy guidelines series
  
• Key Assurance Indicators for laboratory services
  
• NICE consultations
  

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• College Bulletin v
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• Annual reports v
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  • Annual report 2017–2018 v
    • Dr Cate Wight: Doctor and patient
    • Dr Ben Uttenthal: Treating acute myeloid leukaemia
    • Dr Henny Martineau: Trying to save the Saiga
    • Dr Matthew Clarke: A trainee’s experience
  • Annual report 2018–2019 v
    • Dr Ted Fitzsimons: Living with genetic haemochromatosis
    • Dr Fiona Cooke: Managing endocarditis
    • Dr Monika Hofer: Identifying and treating nemaline myopathy
    • Dr Mary Sheppard: how post mortems benefit the living
    • Shefaa El Orman Oncology Hospital (SOH): diagnosing rare cancers
    • Alex Civello: Crumble’s eye tumour
  • Annual report 2019-2020 v
    • A report from the front line
    • Virology: a bridge between the laboratory and patient care
    • Innovating to detect infection
    • Bringing testing to those who are most vulnerable
    • Treating people with convalescent plasma for COVID-19
    • COVID-19: a first-hand account
    • Learning from death to help the living
    • The Crick Institute and Health Service Laboratories working together
  • Annual report 2020−2021 v
    • Targeted cancer therapy using CAR-T cells
    • Using molecular pathology to unveil rare tumours
    • The role of healthcare scientists in cancer diagnosis and management
    • Improving patient outcomes through clinical studies
    • A one health approach to high blood cholesterol
  • Annual report 2021–2022 v
    • Implementing a newborn screening programme: our experience in Kaduna State, Nigeria
    • Improving blood matching for transfusions in patients with sickle cell disorder
    • Finding a novel cause of primary immunodeficiency
    • Combining dentistry and pathology to diagnose and treat oral cancer
    • Multiple myeloma and genetic testing
    • Tackling bird flu in the UK
    • Advances in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
  • References
  • Annual report 2022–2023
  • Annual report 2023–2024
• Publications policy for College documents
  
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Workforce planning

• Our workforce research v
  • Diagnostic cytopathology in the UK 2020
  • Haematology workforce survey 2019
  • Histopathology workforce survey 2018
  • Veterinary pathology recruitment
  • Clinical virology workforce
  • The infection sciences workforce
• Responses to workforce consultations
  

Workforce data

Employing pathologists

• Employing consultant clinical scientists
  
• Employing doctors
  
• Guidance for College Assessors on interview panels v
  • Assessors for medical consultant interviews
  • Assessors for consultant clinical scientist interviews
• Employing healthcare scientists
  
• Employing bodies – Information for the RCPath Sponsorship and MTI schemes
  

Digital pathology

• Chemical Pathology College Specialty Training Committee (CSTC)
  
• National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue
  
• Pathology Bounded Code List
  

Committees

• Cellular Pathology SAC v
  • Cellular Pathology Sub-specialty Advisors
• Clinical Biochemistry SAC
  
• Healthcare Science Committee (formerly the Clinical Science Committee)
  
• Cytopathology Sub-Committee
  
• Dermatopathology Sub-Committee
  
• Digital Pathology Committee
  
• Death Investigation Committee
  
• Forensic Pathology SAC
  
• Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics SAC
  
• Cellular Pathology College Specialty Training Committee (CSTC)
  
• Honorary Fellows
  
• Immunology SAC
  
• Intercollegiate Committee on Haematology
  
• International Committee
  
• Joint Committee on Genomics in Medicine
  
• Joint Committee on Immunology & Allergy
  
• Quality Assurance in Pathology Committee v
• Lay Advisory Group
  
• Medical Examiners Committee
  
• Medical Microbiology and Virology College Specialty Training Committee (CSTC)
  
• Neuropathology SAC
  
• Nominations Committee
  
• Professional Performance Committee
  
• Pre/Perinatal/Paediatric Pathology SAC
  
• Research Committee
  
• Toxicology SAC
  
• Trainees' Advisory Committee v
  • Roles of Trainees Advisory Committee Members
  • Questions for the Trainees' Advisory Committee
• Transfusion Medicine SAC v
• Veterinary Pathology SAC
  
• Working Group on Cancer Services
  
• Joint Medical Microbiology and Medical Virology SAC
  
• Genomics and Reproductive Science SAC
  
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network
  
• RCPath/IBMS Histopathology Reporting Conjoint Board
  
• National Quality Assurance Advisory Panels v
  • National Quality Assurance Advisory Panel in Cellular Pathology
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  • National Quality Assurance Advisory Panel in Haematology
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Research and innovation

• College academic and research strategy
  
• College Research Medals v
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• Routes into academic training
  
• Research career profiles v
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• Academic Pathology Trainees (APT) Information
  
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• Train to become a medical examiner officer v
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Information for refugee pathologists in the UK

Virtual resources

• International Pathology Day
  
• The theory of genomic technologies
  
• Ghana video lecture series v
  • Histopathology webinars
  • Microbiology webinars
  • Haematology webinars
  • Chemical pathology webinars
  • Research webinars
• Antimicrobial resistance and stewardship lecture series
  
• Microbiology challenges in oncology practice in the UK and Egypt
  
• Antimicrobial resistance and stewardship v
  • Global antimicrobial resistance webinar series
• GHWP chemical pathology virtual resources
  
• Key Skills to Enhance an Academic Career
  
• Gross Examination and Frozen Section
  

International humanitarian resources

• Resources for Ukrainian Pathologists
  

East Midlands

• East Midlands PERCs
  

East of England

• East of England PERCs
  

Kent, Surrey and Sussex

London

North East

North West

• North West PERCs
  

South West

• South West PERCs
  

Thames Valley

Wessex

• Wessex PERCs
  

West Midlands

• West Midlands PERCs
  

Yorkshire and the Humber

• Yorkshire and the Humber PERCs
  

Northern Ireland

• Northern Ireland Regional Council
  
• Northern Ireland PERCs
  

Scotland

• Scotland Regional Council
  
• Scotland PERCs
  

Wales

• Wales Regional Council
  
• Wales PERCs
  
• Enter a poster into this year’s RCPath Wales Symposium Poster Competition
  

Regional Representation in England

Funding opportunities and awards