Customer feedback published in german magazine Laborpraxis, May 2006
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May 2006

Juggling research in ten different fields of pathology while teaching routine pathology and research to eight residents: the daily work of Dr. Vincent Smit, pathologist at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), is as multifaceted as it is time-consuming. Practical training sessions with residents are made faster and easier by intelligent, multi-headed Leica discussion systems. Smit also makes sure to enable healthy working conditions and provides them with microscopes that adapt to their physical demands: Leica DM2000 microscopes allow the residents to maintain a relaxed posture for the daily routine, and are also well suited to their first research projects.

Optimum treatment of patients
Biomedical research and diagnostics, training and development of residents and PhD’s, along with managerial functions, make up the daily agenda at the Department of Pathology in Leiden, Netherlands. The goal is to continually improve the treatment of patients. Cancer research, including breast and bone cancer, the study of vaccination to prevent different types of cancer, and diabetes research are among the many items on the agenda at LUMC. Simultaneously, the department's pathologists also currently train eight residents: over a five-year period, these future pathologists learn the most important aspects of routine pathology; they can then choose an area of research specialization.