A'YBODY WHO HAS TALKED to directors of blood banks and transfusion services must be impressed by the variety of backgrounds they bring to their positions. Those who have tried to recruit for such a position must be conscious of the imbalance between a continuing demand and an irregular supply. These combined factors of diversity and shortage led the Committee on Education (CE) to believe that it would be helpful to develop a model curriculum for training people who wish to become directors. A subcommittee appointed for that purpose consulted many of those responsible for existing programs and others prominent in blood bank education. The following summary represents the consensus of the subcommittee.The aspect that we wish particularly to emphasize is the importance of clinical experience. It is a comparatively recent phenomenon that a pathologist can reach a senior position without having had any direct patient care experience or responsibility. We do not wish to argue the merits of such experience in other areas of pathology, but feel very
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