Fellow - Clinical Haematology & Bmt

**Tata Medical Center Fellowship Program
**Fellowship in Clinical Hematology & BMT
Conceptualized in the year 2004 as a philanthropic initiative for the Eastern and North-Eastern parts of
India and the neighboring countries, the Tata Medical Center (TMC) started operations in Kolkata on
May 16, 2011. The hospital is governed by a charitable trust - Tata Medical Centre Trust. It is an
integrated Oncology facility with well-trained professional staff and equipped with modern facilities and
the most contemporary medical equipment. The hospital was designed by Cannon Design, a renowned
architectural firm from North America. It is located on 13 acres of land at New Town in Kolkata, West
Bengal.

The hospital is an integrated Oncology facility with well-trained professional staff and equipped with

modern facilities and contemporary medical equipment. The Hospital, with a capacity of 437 beds,

serves all sections of the society, with 75% of the infrastructure earmarked for subsidized treatment for

the underprivileged sections. It provides a wide spectrum of services from diagnosis and therapy to

rehabilitation and palliative support. The Institution’s objective is to excel in service, education and

research.

**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 lectures; however lectures will not play a dominant role in the theoretical
- component of the training programme. Clinical experience will be acquired by the trainee by day to day
- management of all patients admitted to the haematology service. Faculty will be involved in teaching of
- trainees in the ward
- rounds and outpatient clinics.**Expected Rotations/Work Schema**:

- Clinical hematology: OPD + General+ Private wards - 14 months
- Bone marrow transplant unit - 2 months
- Hematopathology - 2 months
- Molecular pathology - 1 month
- Blood Bank - 1 month
- Biochemistry - 1 week
- Microbiology and virology
- 1 month
- General Pathology - 1 week
- Nuclear Medicine - 1 week
- Radiotherapy - 1 week
- Peripheral posting - 2 months

**Opportunities for career advancement**