Laboratory Medicine (LAB MED)

Instructor(s): Sonam Prakash

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will gain experience in clinical laboratory hematology and hematopathology, including a variety of different blood disorders.

Instructor(s): Zane Amenhotep, Alan Wu, Colette Match, Sara Bakhtary

Students will learn principles of laboratory medicine through clinical consultations, seminars, sign-out sessions and rounds with ZSFG Laboratory Medicine Faculty. This elective covers general principles of test selection, the testing process, quality practices, result interpretation and the importance of clinical correlation. Students will gain exposure to subspecialty areas, such as, clinical chemistry, toxicology, hematology, microbiology, immunology, serology and transfusion medicine.

Instructor(s): Elena Nedelcu, Gisela Marrero-Rivera

This novel course is designed to introduce 3rd and 4th year medical students (Career Launch) to the cellular therapy field, including hematopoietic progenitor cells, CAR-T cell, regulatory T cell and other emerging cellular therapies.

Instructor(s): Elena Nedelcu, Elena Nedelcu, Gisela Marrero-Rivera

This novel Transfusion Medicine Elective is designed to prepare future physicians to understand the overall transfusion process, blood bank testing, blood products indications and contraindications, transfusion reactions and other transfusion-related topics with emphasis on achieving practical skills, including how to appropriately order blood products, and recognize and report transfusion reactions.

Instructor(s): Scott Kogan

Students participate in daily operations of the hematology laboratory, working with a resident on either the Bone Marrow or Heme-Coag rotations evaluating current case materials, attending daily sign-out rounds, and attending weekly teaching conferences.

Instructor(s): Barbara Haller

This two week course is designed to provide the medical student with a fundamental understanding of the principles and practices of Clinical Microbiology. Through direct observation of benchwork, weekly didactic sessions, teaching rounds, and other learning materials, the student will receive instruction in the following areas of Microbiology: Bacteriology, Mycobacteriology, Mycology, Parasitology, Infectious Disease Serology, Virology and Molecular Diagnostics.

Instructor(s): Zane Amenhotep

Focused study and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department.