The Department of Laboratory Medicine is devoted to the study of the molecular and cellular constituents of blood and other body fluids for the diagnosis and management of illness and for the investigation of the mechanisms and pathogenesis of disease. The Department carries out its patient care mission by assuming responsibility for the clinical laboratories; its faculty conduct both basic and applied research, and offer major teaching programs at the medical student and post graduate level.
Teaching is a major emphasis. Clinical Pathology residency training is provided for residents in straight Laboratory Medicine and as part of an integrated anatomic and clinical pathology residency training program in cooperation with the Department of Pathology. The programs are recognized as among the best in the country, and their graduates are highly successful in both academic and clinical practice. Excellent subspecialty fellowship training in Transfusion Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Hematopathology is also provided. The Department teaches two major required courses in the Medical School, Medical Microbiology and Introduction to Laboratory Medicine, as well as a fourth year elective in Laboratory Medicine and the Laboratory Medicine teaching within the Core Medicine Clerkship. In the fifteen years since its inception, Laboratory Medicine faculty has won the Bohmfalk Award on five occasions, an honor bestowed annually by the medical student body to the most outstanding teacher.
Faculty research interests span a broad range and include molecular virology and immunology, stem cell biology, cellular adhesion, the hemostasis-inflammation interface, clinical pharmacology and toxicology, tropical medicine, microbial pathogenesis, molecular diagnostics, structural biology, and biomedical engineering. In addition to the training of graduate and post-doctoral students in individual laboratories, the Department carries out post-doctoral research training of MDs, MD/PhDs and PhDs under the auspices of a special NIH sponsored program for "Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine" with participating faculty from both Laboratory Medicine and a number of other basic science and bridge departments. The Department also houses the NIH-sponsored Yale Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology and offers Core Laboratory Facilities within the Cancer Center for Immune Monitoring and Cell Therapy.
Education
The Department of Laboratory Medicine is heavily involved in the education of Yale undergraduate students, medical and graduate school students, and post-doctoral individuals. Department faculty members also participate in programs at the Yale School of Nursing and the Yale Physician Associate Program. We offer a number of continuing education programs throughout the year in New Haven, in other cities and on-line. In addition, two review-article clinical publications, Lab News and the Clinical Virology Newsletter, are published on a regular basis in print and on-line. Follow the links below for more information on our various activities in education and training.
On-Line Teaching and Continuing Education Materials may be accessed as follows:
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