Familiarizes the student with the patients and their physical problems as seen on a pediatric hematology-oncology service. Students spend equal time with hematology and oncology patients and in the laboratory, perform diagnostic work-ups on new patients, and follow patients who are being evaluated or treated. In the laboratory, the student learns the basic techniques of bone marrow and blood smear.
Some time is spent on the rudiments of blood banking.
Rounds are conducted daily and an hour is spent each day in the laboratory reviewing slides. The student learns the basic approach to diagnosing and evaluating patients with anemia, bleeding disorders, thrombocytopenia, blood dyscrasia, solid tumors and other hematology-oncology diseases. All rights reserved.