Fifty weeks of hospital based transfusion medicine and donor center training, including 2 one –week periods of offsite training in infectious disease testing and HLA.  Our on-site training provides daily involvement with donor center operations, RBC and platelet serology testing, and an active apheresis service providing support for all areas of our tertiary care facility including hematology, renal, cardiology and pulmonary services of internal medicine and pediatrics, as well as obstetrics, stem cell and solid organ transplant services.