A COMPREHENSIVE TRANSFUSION MEDICINE CURRICULUM FOR MEDICAL-STUDENTS

Authors
CABLE RG THAL SE FINK A CALHOUN L PETZ LD CROWLEY JP MOR V GOODNOUGH LT HULL A WHITSETT CF SULLIVAN C SIMPSON MB SILVER S KRUSKALL MS BRENNAN R SMITH JE BAILEY GD GOTTSCHALL JL SIMPSON DE JETER EK FLEMING GA SCHWARTZ KA BRIDGHAM R BULL RW BRIDGHAM RG ROSSI EC KENNEDY MS PEARSOL JA SPENCE RK DAVIDSON R JOHNSTON MFM STEHLING L DRACKER RA EISENSTAEDT RS GLANZ K COTTER SM FELDMAN R TOY PTCY ROSINSKI E GREENWALT TJ AMBRUSO DR HOUSE E HOWE K THAL S STRAUSS RG MITCHELL S SZYMANSKI IO ANDERSON SM LENES BA JASON H MAHAN JM WARKENTIN PI MANNING BA LEACH M SIMON TL SMITH K ODONNELL MJ COLLINS ML STRITTER FT JEFFRIES LC DISERENS D GIGER U VELEZ R PATTEN ED PETRUSA ER WESTPHAL RG MCPHERSON B MINTZ PD SHORT JG FANG WL PRICE TH WOODSON RD STONE HL MEYERS KM MINER D LUSHER JM GALLAGHER R SNYDER EL FARACLAS W HARDING F ROTH C
Citation
Rg. Cable et al., A COMPREHENSIVE TRANSFUSION MEDICINE CURRICULUM FOR MEDICAL-STUDENTS, Transfusion, 35(6), 1995, pp. 465-469
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Hematology
Journal title
Transfusion → ACNP
ISSN journal
00411132
Volume
35
Issue
6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
465 - 469
Database
ISI
SICI code
0041-1132(1995)35:6<465:ACTMCF>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Background: The Transfusion Medicine Academic Awards (TMAA) program, s ponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute,has provided grants to medical schools to help them develop comprehensive curricul a in transfusion medicine. In 1989, the TMAA Group published a set of comprehensive curricular goals for teaching transfusion medicine. The medical student portion of this curriculum has now been revised to ref lect new developments in transfusion medicine and recent trends in med ical school education. Study Design and Methods: Two medical schools i ndependently revised the 1989 curriculum for their students. Because s ignificant similarities were noted between curricula of the two:instit utions, the two revisions were combined and submitted to all TMAA inst itutions for comment. As a result, a revised medical school curriculum was developed and approved by the TMAA Group. Results: The revised cu rriculum consists of 28 objectives in six major areas of transfusion m edicine. It is presented in its entirety in this article. Conclusion: The TMAA transfusion medicine curriculum should provide to medical sch ools a valuable resource for evaluating their teaching of transfusion medicine and should provide to medical school deans and curriculum com mittees an authoritative source of transfusion medicine expertise.