Administrative tasks performed by the PA include but are not limited to inventory control, monitoring of quality assurance, quality control, accreditation inspection preparation, budgeting, supervising of students/residents (in an academic setting), and providing shadowing experiences to prospective Pathologists' Assistant students. When applicable, the PA will perform postmortem examinations under the supervision of a board-certified pathologist including the prosection, dissections of organs, submitting tissue for microscopic examination, assisting with rendering a provisional anatomic diagnosis, composition of the clinical history, and recording of macrospic findings.