Fellow - Clinical Haematology & Bmt

**Tata Medical Center Fellowship Program
**Fellowship in Clinical Hematology & BMT**

The Tata Group has always believed in returning wealth to the Society it serves. It has established
philanthropic trusts which have created National Institutions in Science and Technology, Medical
Research, Social Studies and the Performing Arts.Tata Medical Center (TMC), Kolkata, is a philanthropic
initiative from the House of Tata. Its mission is to promote prevention of cancer, to provide facilities for
early diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation to cancer patients, and to do research in cancer.
The hospital is a comprehensive Cancer Care Center with well-trained professional staff and equipped
with modern facilities and contemporary medical equipment. This Institution has been set up at New
Town in the Rajarhat area of Kolkata on 13 acres of land and is managed by a professional management
body reporting to the Tata Medical Centre Trust (TMCT). The hospital started operations on 16th May
2011. The Hospital, with a capacity of 183 beds, serves all sections of the society, with 50% of the
infrastructure earmarked for subsidized treatment for the underprivileged sections. The Institution's
objective is to excel in service, education and research.This state-of-the-art Hospital has been built on
carefully landscaped grounds to emphasize the holistic approach in our crusade against cancer. The
buildings were designed by Cannon Design, a renowned architectural firm from North America.
Diagnosis and treatment are characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach with Disease Management
Teams, wherein experts from different streams participate in decision-making for treatment protocols,
using evidence-based medical strategies and appropriate documented clinical guidelines.

Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, has strived to be one of the leading cancer care and research institutions in
the country and has benefited West Bengal as well as the adjoining states and neighboring countries.

**The Department**:
The clinical hematology department would cater to treat all patients with hematological disorders, with
emphasis on hematological malignancies. The clinical department would be adequately supported by
laboratory sciences, equipped to reliably perform investigations from the basic ones to the latest
molecular tests, which would not serve not only as proper prognostication tools, but also would help us
to personalize treatment. A state of the art 9 bedded stem cell transplant unit would be first of its kind in
this part of India, to perform autologous and allogenic (matched sibling, unrelated donor and cord blood)
transplant for hematological malignancies, bone marrow failure syndromes (inherited and acquired),
immunodeficiency states and thalassemia major. The department of hematology would be headed by Dr.
Mammen Chandy, former professor and Head of dept of hematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore.

**Fellowship Objectives**:

- Diagnose and manage all patients with malignant diseases of the haemopoietic and related

systems.
- Recognize the nature, assess the significance and manage the haematological complications of

non
- haemopoietic diseases and their therapy.
- Interpret laboratory data (and whenever possible contribute to their genesis) and synthesize

laboratory and clinical data so as to provide rational solutions for patients’ haematological
problems.
- Select appropriate diagnostic tests to arrive at a correct diagnosis.
- Understand the principles of different tests.
- Be familiar with current blood transfusion practice including collection of blood, separation and
- storage of blood components and quality control.- Understand and introduce quality assurance.
- Understand the indications, selection of patients and procedures in involved in stem cell

transplantation.

**Fellowship Duration**:
2 years**Eligibility Criteria**

**Essential**:Any one of the following medical qualifications- DM Clinical Haematology
- DM Medical Oncology
- MD General Medicine
- MD Paediatrics
- MD Pathology

**Clinical responsibilities**:
The fellow would be responsible for primarily evaluating patients in the OPD as well as in the ward. All
- day to day evaluation and management of the patient would be the responsibility of the fellow with
- appropriate guidance from the consultants in the department. The approach to the patient should be
- scientific and compassionate.**Academic responsibilities**:
With appropriate guidance and under supervision, the postgraduate student will be responsible
- primarily for the acquisition of knowledge in areas of malignant hematology, bone marrow failure
- syndromes and Transfusion Medicine. Such knowledge will be acquired and demonstrated through
- Seminars, Case Presentations, and Journal Clubs, proper use of the library for "Suggested Reading" and
- formal reviews of selected major topics. Faculty staff would be present at these various exercises so as to- in the form of formal lecture