Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine

Required Competencies

Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Demonstrate the ability to provide direct communication to the referring physician or appropriate clinical personnel when interpretation of a laboratory assay reveals an urgent, critical, or unexpected finding and document this communication in an appropriate fashion.
Demonstrate the ability to communicate the vision of the CP service role to other clinicians as well as to other healthcare personnel and administrators to develop clinically advantageous and cost-effective strategies.
Conduct both individual consultations and presentations at multidisciplinary conferences that are focused, clear, and concise.
Choose effective modes of communication (listening, nonverbal, explanatory, questioning) and mechanisms of communication (face-to-face, telephone, e-mail, written), as appropriate. Written communications must be articulate, legible, and comprehensive.
Demonstrate skills in obtaining informed consent, including effective communication to patients about procedures, alternative approaches, and possible complications of laboratory-based patient care diagnostic and therapeutic activities, such as those related to transfusion medicine.
Demonstrate skills in educating colleagues and other healthcare professionals which includes:
- Helping other residents obtain proficiency in laboratory medicine.
- Working well with medical technologists and to present laboratory medicine concepts to them effectively in continuing education settings and in the day-to-day laboratory environment.
- Educating non-pathology clinicians and other healthcare workers, including pharmacists, nurses, residents, medical students, and others, about topics such as the fundamental principles of pathophysiology underlying test design/interpretation and the approach to choosing and interpreting laboratory tests.
- Understanding the principles one must follow when educating other practicing pathologists through publications or seminars on new testing and therapeutic strategies, research discoveries, and other cutting-edge professional knowledge.

Resident Rotation Summary

Educational Goals And Objectives

Patient Care

Medical Knowledge

Practice Based Learning

Interpersonal And Communication Skills

Professionalism

Systems Based Practice

Supervisory Guidelines

Daily Duties And Responsibilities

Consultant To Other Physicians

On Call Duties

Communication On Duty Faculty

Structured Education Management

ACGME

ERAS

NRMP