Emerging From the Basement: The Visible Pathologist

[...]the outlook may not be as bleak as once suspected; however, the drive for increased interest in our field should remain a goal. After the release of the Carnegie Report in 2010, many medical schools changed curriculum delivery from a traditional subject-based approach with multiweek pathology courses to a systemsbased approach with integration of subjects.6 This more fragmented view of pathology may lack sufficient exposure and leads students to believe pathologists are basic scientists with limited career options.4,7,8 Moreover, when students are aware of pathologists their perceptions are limited to unflattering stereotypes perpetuated in medicine and the media. To dispel any concerns about Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) violations, the posting of deidentified pathology photos to social media has been shown to be both legal and ethical,13 and academic pathology departments, state pathology societies, national pathology societies, pathology journals, and individual pathologists have become increasingly present on social media.