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Haematology/Oncology
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Electives

The student will be attached to either the haematology or the oncology consultation service or both. The student should consider themselves part of the team and will be expected to look after some of the patients on service under the supervision of the fellow and staff person. They should see the new consults, take the history, examine the patient and decide on the relevant investigations. They will also be expected to look after some of the patients already on treatment who have been admitted for complications of therapy. They will attend the diagnostic imaging and laboratory sessions with the team and will be expected to get and know the results of all investigations done.

The student will also attend outpatient clinics with their staff person and in the case of students attached to haematology, will also be expected to attend one session each of the haemoglobinopathy, coagulation and haemophilia clinics. This should be organized with the fellow on the consult service so that the appropriate time is made available.

The students on both services will have one hour a week in the haematology lab with one of the lab fellows to look at teaching slides. This will usually be organized by the Medical Coordinator of Undergraduate Electives, Dr. Alexander, or the fellows on the consult services.

By the end of the elective period the student should be familiar with:

Haematology

  1. An approach to anemia of childhood, with an understanding of the etiologic classification, the morphologic classification and an approach to diagnostic procedures.
  2. An approach to bleeding problems in childhood including coagulopathies, platelet abnormalities and blood-vessel abnormalities.
  3. An understanding of normal values in children including the changes that take place from the neonatal period to adolescence.

Oncology

  1. An overview of paediatric cancer with reference to age-related incidence and survival.
  2. An approach to cervical lymphadenopathy in children.
  3. An approach to abdominal mass in the neonate and child.
  4. An approach to bone pain and limp in the child.
For more information, please contact:

Tiffany Jiminez
Education Program
Haematology/Oncology
The Hospital for Sick Children
Phone: 416-813-7742
email: tiffany.jiminez@sickkids.ca