For 120 years, Danbury Hospital's mission in western Connecticut and nearby New York has been to advance the health and well-being of people in the community in partnership with those we serve. The hospital works to achieve outstanding performance through patient care, education and outreach that combine to offer high quality, advanced technology and exceptional service to support patients and their families. Solucient, a leading national source of health care business intelligence, has placed Danbury Hospital among the 100 Top Hospitals© for better patient safety, shorter length of stay and lower mortality (death rate) than its peer hospitals.

ANATOMIC AND CLINICAL PATHOLOGY RESIDENCY

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

The residency program in pathology (AP-CP) and laboratory medicine provides residents the opportunity to participate in patient care, teaching rounds, and conferences. Faculty from Yale University School of Medicine joins our staff to conduct teaching conferences, as well as in depth symposia. Residents can learn to interpret flow cytometry and gene rearrangement studies in our state-of-the-art molecular pathology laboratory. Residents can pursue subspecialty electives at Yale-New Haven Hospital, forensic pathology and toxicology at the Office of the Medical Examiner in Farmington, and tissue typing in Farmington, American Red Cross.

Residents interact with other specialties:
Danbury Hospital is strongly committed to medical education. The hospital trains residents in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Dentistry, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Pediatrics and Psychiatry. Hospital-sponsored allied health educational programs include Medical Technology, Radiology Technology, Surgical Technology, and a Dietetic Internship.

The residency program in AP/CP is the oldest residency at Danbury Hospital, accredited since 1958. Our residents interact in a multitude of ways with other Housestaff and attending physicians in all of the hospital's departments and residency programs. These interactions include a variety of clinicopathologic correlation in the form of clinical rounds, formal clinicopathologic conferences, delivery of laboratory consultative services such as frozen sections, blood product transfusion requests, and transfusion reactions, coagulation studies, bone marrow aspiration/biopsies, and various tumor. Our residents also serve on a number of multidisciplinary Hospital committees, including Bank Committee, Medical Education Committee, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, and Infection Control and Ethics Committee. The above activities allow for a wealth of exposure of our residents to the whole spectrum of the health care delivery system, as well as providing for plentiful interactions with housestaff from our institution's other residency programs and attending physicians.