title: A comprehensive transfusion medicine curriculum for medical students. Transfusion Medicine Academic Award Group.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Transfusion Medicine Academic Awards (TMAA) program, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, has provided grants to medical schools to help them develop comprehensive curricula in transfusion medicine. In 1989, the TMAA Group published a set of comprehensive curricular goals for teaching transfusion medicine. The medical student portion of this curriculum has now been revised to reflect new developments in transfusion medicine and recent trends in medical school education.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two medical schools independently revised the 1989 curriculum for their students. Because significant similarities were noted between curricula of the two institutions, the two revisions were combined and submitted to all TMAA institutions for comment. As a result, a revised medical school curriculum was developed and approved by the TMAA Group.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The revised curriculum consists of 28 objectives in six major areas of transfusion medicine. It is presented in its entirety in this article.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The TMAA transfusion medicine curriculum should provide to medical schools a valuable resource for evaluating their teaching of transfusion medicine and should provide to medical school deans and curriculum committees an authoritative source of transfusion medicine expertise.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, USA.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Cable
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Thal
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fink
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Calhoun
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Petz
mesh_terms: D015551:Autoimmunity; D001781:Blood Component Removal; D016913:Blood Component Transfusion; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D065227:Transfusion Reaction