title: Development of a curriculum for the preparation of phlebotomists.
abstract: Automation and other factors have produced a sharp growth in the volume of laboratory testing. This has created the need for a new position on the laboratory team: the phlebotomist. This paper describes one medical center's experience in the creation of a curriculum for the training of phlebotomists.
mesh_terms: D001800:Blood Specimen Collection; D003479:Curriculum; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D007615:Kansas; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000193:education*; D013048:Specimen Handling; D014680:Veins / Q000601:surgery