The Joint Pathology Center (JPC) education mission is twofold: continuing medical education and graduate education. It will develop a robust online CME curriculum. The focus of the online educational activities, at least initially, will be on maintenance of certification requirements and the needs of the solo pathologist in support of the DoD and VA.

Educational activities will include online lectures, videoteleconferences, and a digital slide repository for CME credit.

Graduate education will include subspecialty rotations for federal government residencies and fellowships and support of the dermatopathology fellowship at National Naval Medical Center and of the Navy Oral Pathology Fellowship.

As the JPC matures, we will work closely with the others DoD, military and civilians agencies to identify and implement other educational opportunities.

The JPC does not provide verification of training for individuals who trained at the now-closed Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP).

Questions concerning verification of training may be addressed to:

Armed Forces Medical Examiner
Armed Forces Medical Examiner System
Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner
115 Purple Heart Drive
Dover Air Force Base, DE 19902

DSN: 366-8648 | Phone: (302) 346-8648 | Fax: (302) 346-8637

• JPC eLearning Series: Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsy: Slide Set 4
  This slide set will help participating physicians to better recognize diagnostic features of selected benign, malignant, infectious, and idiopathic diseases encountered in the human surgical pathology of the gastrointestinal system.
• JPC eLearning Series: Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsy: Slide Set 5
  This slide set will help participating physicians to better recognize diagnostic features of selected benign, malignant, infectious, and idiopathic diseases encountered in the human surgical pathology of the gastrointestinal system.
• Veterinary Systemic Pathology Online (VSPO)
  VSPO embodies the core veterinary systemic pathology training curriculum at JPC. This database currently contains 775 cases chosen from the following systems: cardiovascular, digestive, endocrine, integument, musculoskeletal, nervous, pulmonary, reproductive, special senses, urinary, and hemolymphatic. Each case is labeled with a unique alphanumeric code such as D-N04, which identifies both the organ system represented (Digestive, Cardiovascular, etc.) as well as the type of disease process involved (Neoplastic, Bacterial, etc.). You may view cases as known or unknown entities, body system and species.
• Wednesday Slide Conference (WSC)
  The WSC is held at the JPC on Wednesdays for 25 weeks each year from September through May. Each conference presents four unknown cases of classic or newly discovered diseases or entities.