In India general surgical pathologists report on all tissue types, and subspecialty training is an exception. We undertook an internal audit of gastric biopsy reporting in a large teaching hospital to assess need for subspecialty training.

In a first phase, 228 consecutive gastric biopsies (two antral + one body bits in each) undertaken in our institution over six months were objectively evaluated by three experienced histopathologists, based on the updated Sydney classification.¹ The three histopathologists were “trained” over four to five sessions at a multihead microscope, each session lasting 20 to 30 minutes (less than two hours cumulative time). Thereafter each …