The overall goal of this fellowship is to prepare a fellow with sufficient knowledge and experience to function as the medical director of the blood bank and/or transfusion medicine service in a community or academic hospital.
Throughout the year the fellow will learn the essential administrative, laboratory, and clinical aspects of blood donor and hospital transfusion services. This knowledge and experience will be gained by: (1) rotations through various work areas; (2) daily meetings with the medical director of the blood bank and/or associate medical director of the blood bank; (3) specific assignments (research, literature review, or reading) supervised by the medical director of the blood bank.
The ACGME Core Competencies will be incorporated into the objectives and will also be the basis for fellow evaluation during this fellowship. The following summarizes the “six core competencies” specifically delineated for blood banking/transfusion medicine:
Objectives for this fellowship are based on the AABB Taskforce on Transfusion Medicine Resident Curriculum recommendations pertaining to curriculum content in transfusion medicine/blood banking education in pathology residency programs (Reference: Fung MK, et al. A proposal for curriculum content in transfusion medicine and blood banking education in pathology residency programs. Transfusion 2007;47:1930-136). These objectives are divided into three areas (i.e. transfusion service, blood collection/blood center/cell processing, and therapeutic apheresis). By achieving these objectives, the fellow should achieve competency in these areas by the end of their one-year fellowship and obtain the “overall fellowship goal” (stated above).
Note: The abbreviation of each ACGME Core Competency specific to each goal is noted in brackets at the end of each statement.
Note: the skill levels of the rotation objectives are roughly divided into three categories:
Skill Level 1
Skill Level 2
Skill Level 3
Skill Level 1
Skill Level 2
Skill Level 3
Skill Level 1
Skill Level 2
Skill Level 3
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