Community Blood Center offers a well-developed rotation that introduces residents to the day-to-day functions of a blood center. Residents spend the month observing, discussing, and experiencing specialized procedures and testing, along with investigating and presenting a current topic in transfusion medicine/blood banking.
Resident rotations include discussions, observations and/or hands on experience in the following blood center departments:
- Donor recruitment
- Donor services
- Component laboratory
- Product testing laboratory
- Product control and labeling
- Quality
- Therapeutic apheresis
- Immunohematology reference laboratory
- ABO/Rh testing, discrepancies
- Antibody identification
- Direct antiglobulin test
- Elution
- Serologic antigen typing
- Adsorption
- Case studies
- National Center for Blood Group Genomics
- DNA extraction
- Bioarray HEA bead chip
- Cast studies
For more information, contact us.