For this quarter, there were 178 job postings for full time or part time pathologists at PathologyOutlines.com, which form the basis for the statistics below. This is a 25.4% increase from the 142 job postings in the third quarter of 2016. We have excluded postings that were only for locum, Ph.D., residency, fellowship or non-pathologist positions. Of the 178 postings, 160 were for 1 position, 8 were for 2 positions, 9 were for an unspecified number of positions greater than one and one position was for unspecified number of positions greater than 3.
Of the 178 ads, 89 (50%) were for academic positions, and 89 (50%) were for non-academic positions. We saw a slight decrease in academic positions and a small increase in nonacademic positions compared with the third quarter in 2016 (54% academic, 46% nonacademic). We define academic as an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor position at a University.
For this quarter, jobs were posted from 37 of 50 states, 6 provinces in Canada, and 1 job ad in Puerto Rico. Three jobs were for General USA or Northeast. California had 20 ads, New York had 18 ads, and Massachusetts had 12 ads.
Totals by regions: (click here for map of US regions):
Regions:
| USA - Midwest | 35 | 19.7% |
| USA - Northeast | 53 | 29.8% |
| USA - South | 35 | 19.7% |
| USA - West | 40 | 22.5% |
| Canada | 13 | 7.3% |
| Other | 2 | 1.1% |
| Totals | 178 | 100.1% |
Totals by region increased slightly in the Northeast (from 27.5% to 29.8%) and West (from 19.0% to 22.5%) and decreased noticeably in the Midwest (from 23.9% to 19.7%) and South (from 26.1% to 19.7%), compared with the 3rd quarter of 2016.
78.7% of postings required AP or AP/CP board certification / eligibility (BC/BE), similar to the 79.6% figure we saw for the third quarter of 2016. 34.8% required AP/CP boards and 15.2% of postings required CP boards certification only. Nine postings indicated board certification, without specifying AP or CP and two postings did not specify board certification at all.
Minimum requirements (board certified/board eligible):
| AP | 78 | 43.8% |
| AP/CP | 62 | 34.8% |
| AP or CP | 9 | 5.1% |
| CP | 27 | 15.2% |
| Not indicated | 2 | 1.1% |
| Totals | 178 | 100.0% |
160 (89.9%) jobs required fellowship training or strong subspecialty experience. For this period, the most common subspecialties / job descriptions listed were Cytopathology, Hematopathology and Breast, as indicated below. To determine the statistics below, we tried to determine from the text of the ads what fellowship training was essential for a Pathologist, or what the type of position was.
Required training (experience):
| None specified | 18 | 10.1% |
| Cytopathology | 32 | 18.0% |
| Hematopathology | 30 | 16.9% |
| Breast | 22 | 12.4% |
| GI | 20 | 11.2% |
| Transfusion | 18 | 10.1% |
| Clinical | 17 | 9.6% |
| Molecular | 17 | 9.6% |
| Dermatopathology | 16 | 9.0% |
| GYN | 15 | 8.4% |
| GU | 14 | 7.9% |
| Neuropathology | 11 | 6.2% |
| Director/Chief/Chair | 10 | 5.6% |
| Pulmonary | 9 | 5.1% |
| Research | 9 | 5.1% |
| Head & Neck | 8 | 4.5% |
| Pediatric | 6 | 3.4% |
| Chemistry | 5 | 2.8% |
| Education | 5 | 2.8% |
| Informatics | 4 | 2.2% |
| Medical Director | 4 | 2.2% |
| Renal | 4 | 2.2% |
| Bone & Soft Tissue | 3 | 1.7% |
| HLA | 3 | 1.7% |
| Cytogenetics | 2 | 1.1% |
| Microbiology | 2 | 1.1% |
| Autopsy | 1 | 0.6% |
| GI/Liver | 1 | 0.6% |
| IHC | 1 | 0.6% |
| Transplant | 1 | 0.6% |
| Totals | 308 |
Note: Some positions listed multiple specialties; percentages are out of 178 ads
10 postings (5.6%) also listed one or more subspecialties that would be "an asset" or otherwise helpful. The most common was Molecular, as indicated below:
Other desired specialities:
| Molecular | 7 | 3.9% |
| Breast | 1 | 0.6% |
| Cytopathology | 1 | 0.6% |
| GI | 1 | 0.6% |
| HLA | 1 | 0.6% |
| Medical Director | 1 | 0.6% |
| Microbiology | 1 | 0.6% |
| Pediatric | 1 | 0.6% |
| Research | 1 | 0.6% |
| Totals | 15 |
Length of postings:
We remove job ads when (a) the advertisers contact us and request removal, (b) after we contact the advertisers (beginning 3 - 4 months after posting) and they request removal, or (c) the ads expire at 6 months. To ensure that 6 months have elapsed from the job postings, we are using data from October 2016 to March 2017.
For this period, there were 315 job ads, including 127 in which the advertisers requested removal before the 6 month period expired. This includes 63 academic jobs, with an average of 128 days posting per job (range, 6-188 days) and 64 nonacademic jobs, with an average of 109 days posting per job (range, 10-171 days). There were 188 job ads which ran until expiration, including 108 academic and 80 nonacademic ads.
Please contact Dr. Pernick with any questions or comments at NatPernick@gmail.com.
