The department of Pathology was established in our erstwhile private medical college at its inception in 1965. Ever since the department has metamorphosed and kept up with the ever increasing demand and technological advances of an investigation dominated world of medicine.

In 2026, when the 16Path website went live, the college had 200 undergraduate students and the department had 7 postgraduate students and served the affiliated state run hospital through its sections of histopathology, cytology, haematology, blood centre, and central clinical laboratory. The Department is equipped with modern equipment and machineries viz., 5 part hematology analysers, fully automated coagulometer, liquid based cytology centrifuge, immunohistochemistry antigent retrieval system, automatic tissue processor, and urine analyzer.

Our department houses a state of the art Multidisciplinary Research Unit (MRU) which focuses on non-communicable disease research with current key focus on haematopathology, especially haemoglobinopathies. Advanced equipment like Olympus Trinocular Microscope with inbuilt photoimaging capabilities, high performance liquid chromatography variant 2 and Bio-Rad-D10 haemoglobin testing system.

16Path is a novel, web-based learning initiative by Dr. Madhumita Kurdukar and Dr. Kaustubh Chaudhari of the Department of Pathology of Dr V. M. Govt. Medical College, Solapur. This web portal integrates futuristic and digital learning techniques in a simple yet intuitive design to enhance the training of Pathology. It aims at keeping up with the trend of self-learning in a post pandemic world while still ensuring that the insight-driven classroom training tradition remains intact.

Several modules like 16Path cards, live gross and microscopy demonstrations, and specimen screening protocol are one of their kind contributions by VMPath to the world of academic Pathology. Besides these, the riddles, MCQ tickers, specimen posters, research posters, lab procedure demonstrations, and patient information material are other learning aids that intend to keep the visitor engaged and informed.

Solapur (/so.la.puːɾ/) is a collection of 16 (sola in Hindi) villages and referred to as 16pur in SMS acronyms. The creators came up with a quirky name 16Path instead of VMPath to credit the Pathologists of the entire city and its patients instead of just the department. This leaves room for all 16purkars to contribute to this learning initiative and get credited for it.