Training provided by the Hematology Clinics

Organization of the General Hematology Clinic

The general hematology clinic is attended by all Fellows, as well as Residents in Medicine rotating through our service. Three full-time staff attend clinic each week. Between 40-50 patients may be seen, and the fellows are responsible for knowing about the clinical problems of each.

The full-time staff reviews all cases with the medical residents and fellows.

Organization of the Lymphoma-Leukemia Clinic

The fellow is directly responsible for the care of patients with hematologic malignancies. These patients usually are on combination chemotherapy and are followed at frequent intervals. Each fellow sees about 5-6 patients per week.

Four full-time staff review all cases with the Fellows. Full-time chemotherapy nurses and research nurses are available to facilitate the administration of chemotherapy and to administer all required aspects of research protocols.

The Clinic has been organized to provide the fellow with a group of "personal patients" to follow throughout the two years. This enables the fellow to have direct responsibility for the continuous care of patients with hematologic malignancies receiving chemotherapy.

Training purposes of the Kaposi's sarcoma Clinic/AIDS-Lymphoma Clinic

These two clinics are organized so that fellows have some experience in managing patients with AIDS, and with AIDS-related malignancies. This frequent complication of AIDS requires significant background knowledge and good clinical judgment, and this rotation provides an experience that fulfills those requirements, working with faculty who are recognized internationally in this field

Training purposes of the Hematology clinics

By providing the fellow with a group of patients to follow throughout the two years, the fellow learns firsthand the responsibilities of the ambulatory care of patients with hematologic disorders.

By giving the fellow supervisory responsibilities for this large group of patients, the fellow also acquires experience in teaching. He or she is responsible not only for bedside teaching but also for teaching hematology and hematologic morphology to the house-staff.

By making the fellow responsible for reviewing and approving the decisions of medical residents, the fellow is challenged to know more hematology and internal medicine than these residents and is stimulated to read and organize his knowledge so that he/she can teach his/her contemporaries.

By providing adequate full-time faculty coverage in clinics, the trainee can review difficult problems with a more experienced physician immediately after he/she has made an independent assessment of the problem.

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