Students acquire proficiency in the interpretation blood studies and peripheral blood smears and develop understanding in the administration of various anticancer drugs. C. Daily rounds are made at the hospital on a complement of approximately 20 patients with various cancers and hematological problems.
Outpatient clinics are twice weekly.
A. Improve student understanding of methods of diagnosis and management of the patients with cancer and blood disorders. B. Introduce the student to various hematologic and cancer-related research tools and the clinical research techniques involving randomized chemotherapy trials. The student will participate in management of cancer patients and be instructed in the principles and operations of the diagnostic procedures used. The student will write a provisional consultative report on all patients examined. These will be discussed and reviewed by the faculty attending, amended and corrected as necessary, and issued as the final report.