TM fellowships

[akb]

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Does anyone know where any good TM fellowships are? Just curious to know!!

 

[akb]

also, are they ultra-competitive?

 

[desmangt]

also, are they ultra-competitive?

What do you mean by TM? Transplant?

 

[akb]

TM=transfusion medicine - sorry!

 

[Logos']

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[tsj]

Penn, Emory and Cedars-sinai come to mind

 

[Mindy]

As the current bloodbank resident at MGH, I think the blood bank here is OUTSTANDING. MGH is a very unique hospital in that we actually collect and process almost all of the blood that we use in our patients. Incorporated within the first and second floor of one building, we have an outpatient transfusion center where we dispense IVIG, blood products, and miscellany. This runs like a clinic, where we are responsible for managing (sometimes almost like critical care) ~15 patients per day. We are responsible for all transfusion reactions and work each up. We are also consulted on many floor patients, particularly since one of our attendings (Dr. Dzik) is medicine-trained with boards in Heme-Onc. Not to mention that all of our attendings are regular contributors to journals, with both Dr. Dzik and Dr. Stowell published in the the current issue of Transfusion (seperate articles). They are both internationally recognized. Finally we have a lot of stem-cell collections and other types of pheresis (like the therapeutic plasma exchanges I mentioned before for TPE.) The blood bank residents are responsible for all of the therapeutic phereses (and have more limited responsibility--depending how you look at it since the collections all happen under our watch--for the auto stem cell collections. We have top notch serology with our own reference lab and HLA-typing. Also, we are encouraged to whatever degree we desire, to learn about blood product processing (which we do on site) or can go on the blood drive buses. I cannot speak more highly about the quality of training in the blood bank here. And at heart I am an anatomic pathologist!

Mindy

 

[MS05']

Hey Mindy! I sent you a PM.

 

[LADoc00]

I think MGH is the best for TM, but Im sure some psycho UCLA lover is gonna go crazy on me and say they are the best. So to prempt them: yes, UCLA is the best at everything. Next time I see a case signed out by Jonathan Said I'll try not to laugh so hard out of respect.

PS-Isnt the combo of Ramzy and Barr at UCI>UCLA? Not sure, anyone signed out at both places recently?

PS2-When Chaffin was at Walter Reed, I wouldve said that program hands down.