<p>Just because one school didn’t produce any pathology residents (over what, a year), doesn’t mean you can’t go into pathology.</p>
<p>The thing is, most people go into medicine expecting to see patients (ones that are alive). They don’t decide to become doctors because they want to look through a microscope all day. That doesn’t mean you can’t, or that if you do you shouldn’t become a physician, just that pathology is not a popular field. Certainly there are people who realize midway through medical school that dealing with sick people who do nothing but complain isn’t for them or that for the lifestyle they want, pathology is their golden ticket, but they’re still a minority of physicians (though vitally important).</p>
<p>Further, you have to realize how personal specialty choice is. While a great professor may inspire a few students to change their minds (or alternatively horrible profs discouraging students), pathology is a unique situation, something that most people have already crossed off their list well before any professor has a chance to make a difference in their opinion. </p>
<p>So bottom line, if you want to be a pathologist, you can, get into med school, ANY med school and that field will be open to you.</p>