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Interpersonal and Communication Skills

1. Objectives:
   1. Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective exchange of information with other health care providers
   2. Communicate the residents own thought processes in arriving at diagnostic conclusions.
2. Plan:
   1. Be able to communicate with clinicians and pathologists who refer cases to Neuropathology regarding additional clinical and radiographic information necessary fro evaluation of a case.
   2. Be able to communicate with clinicians and pathologists who refer cases to Neuropathology regarding neuropathology findings, with particular emphasis on clinico-pathologic correlation where appropriate.
   3. Be prepared to present selected cases at the semi-weekly Neuropathology Case Review Conference.
   4. Be prepared to present selected cases at the weekly interdisciplinary Neuromuscular Biopsy Conference.
   5. Be prepared to present selected cases at the weekly interdisciplinary Neuro-oncology Conference.
   6. Be prepared to present selected cases at the weekly Forensic Neuropathology Slide Review Conference.
   7. Elucidate important points of cases and discuss the underlying pathogenesis and etiology, if possible, in group sessions.  Discuss differential diagnoses where pertinent.
3. Supervision/Assessment:
   1. Resident performance will be assessed through direct observation by Neuropathology faculty, fellows, and office and laboratory staff, and by clinicians and others who interact with the Neuropathology Division.
   2. Input from Neuropathology faculty and staff regarding individual resident performance is solicited by the rotation director, and communicated to the resident through face-to-face verbal as well as formal written evaluations.  The formal written evaluation that is completed at the end of the rotation becomes a part of the residents permanent record.