Pathologist assistants are employed in a variety of settings, including community and regional hospitals, university medical centers, private pathology laboratories, and medical examiners/coroners’ offices.
Pathologist assistants entry-level salaries begin at $75,000- $85,000; upper ranges of salary are $85,000 to more than $100,000.
Surgical pathology.
Pathologist assistants duties:
-Assisting in the preparation and performance of surgical specimen dissection by ensuring appropriate specimen accessioning,
-obtaining pertinent clinical information and studies,
-describing gross anatomic features,
-dissecting surgical specimens,
-preparing and submitting tissue for histologic processing,
-obtaining and submitting specimens for additional analytic procedures (immunostaining, flow cytometry, image analysis, bacterial and viral cultures, toxicology, etc), and assisting in photographing gross and microscopic specimens.
