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Blood, 15 June 2004, Vol. 103, No. 12, pp. 4383-4388. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on February 5, 2004; DOI 10.1182/blood-2003-11-3986. This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) All Versions of this Article: 2003-11-3986v1 103/12/4383    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Todd, R. F. Articles by Burns, L. J. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Todd, R. F., III Articles by Burns, L. J. Related Collections Perspectives Related Article in Blood Online Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Table of Contents  |  Next Article  PERSPECTIVES Subspeciality training in hematology and oncology, 2003: results of a survey of training program directors conducted by the American Society of Hematology Robert F. Todd, III, Scott D. Gitlin, Linda J. Burns, and the Committee on Training Programs From the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor; the Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis. A survey of directors of adult and pediatric hematology/oncology subspecialty training programs in the United States and Canada was conducted to assess the environment in which recruitment and training is conducted in these medical disciplines. A total of 107 program directors responded to the survey, representing 66% of internal medicine and 47% of pediatric subspecialty programs in hematology or hematology/oncology. Specific areas covered in the web-based questionnaire included the type and demographics of the training program, profile of the training program director, characteristics of the applicant pool and existing trainee recruits, characteristics of the training program environment and curricula, research productivity of trainees, and the career pathways taken by recent training program graduates (including dominant areas of clinical interest). The results of this survey show considerable heterogeneity in the recruiting practices and the environment in which subspecialty training occurs, leading the authors to recommend improvements in or a heightened attention to issues, including recruitment of minority trainees, flexibility to recruit international medical school graduates, timing of trainee acceptance, maintaining the financial support of Medicare graduation medical education (GME), training of physician scientists, organization of the continuity clinic experience, visibility of nonmalignant hematology as a career path, and level of training program director support. (Blood. 2004;103:4383-4388) CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this? Related Article in Blood Online: Is there a bench at the bedside? Richard A. Cooper Blood 2004 103: 4375-4376. [Full Text] [PDF] This article has been cited by other articles: A. Melnick Transitioning from Fellowship to a Physician-Scientist Career Track Hematology, January 1, 2008; 2008(1): 16 - 22. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] E Bajetta, A Gevorgyan, and H Mellstedt National integration of European standards Ann. Onc., June 1, 2007; 18(6): 969 - 970. [Full Text] [PDF]

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