Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship
Baylor College of Medicine
Description: A one year fellowship. Our Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship program is designed to provide the resident with the technical and clinical training necessary to become an effective transfusion medicine consultant. This program is fully integrated part of the pathology residency training program at Baylor College of Medicine affiliated hospitals in Houston, Texas. The transfusion medicine fellow works closely with the clinical pathology residents who rotate on our service as part of their clinical pathology training. The pathology faculty supervising this program provide direct patient care in a number of clinical areas and have close interaction with the other pathology residents in both clinical and anatomic pathology and with the residents and faculty in many clinical services, especially cardiovascular surgery, hematology, internal medicine, and neurology. For example, the faculty supervising this fellow provide direct patient card in areas of management of hemostasis for cardiovascular surgery, therapeutic apheresis, and collection of hematopoietic progenitor cells. The fellow works closely with the attending physicians in our transfusion medicine program and is given graded responsibility in these direct patient interactions. The fellow is able to participate in the care of patients requiring massive and emergency blood transfusion and learns about the use of hemostatic pharmacologic agents. The fellow gain skills in the technical and clinical aspects of therapeutic keukoreduction. The bench rotations are supplemented by a series of organized didactic seminars which will be held on a weekly basis. These are in addition to attendance and presentation at multiple conferences related to transfusion medicine. The fellow takes night call on a maximum of one to two times weekly and approximately one in every four weekends with the attending faculty.
Requirements: Candidates must be Board-certified or eligible for certification in Clinical Pathology, AP/CP or Clinical Hematology.
Stipends: Stipend is commensurate with the training level of the applicant.
Applications: Direct Inquiries to:
David Yawn, MD
Director, Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program
Department of Pathology
Baylor College of Medicine - BCM 315
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-798-4083
Fax: 713-798-3665
E-mail: yboney@bcm.edu
Web site: http://www.bcm.edu/pathology