EDUCATION

The Department Provides short term training to junior residents of Pathology and Laboratory medicine and Senior Residents (DM Students ) of the Department of Hematology . Two Graduate and two postgraduate students from the various other departments of AIIMS received short term training . Four students from various universities , three doctors from other hospitals in Delhi and one doctor from Dhaka, Bangladesh attended 4-6 months training in the Laboratory techniques of HLA testing . During the year, three students completed their Ph.D and were awarded.

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

The Faculty of the department participated in and delivered 40 lectures in Continuing education programs , symposia, national and international conferences during the year. A quality control exercise for DNA typing of HLA genes has been started at the national level. The department provides a course on basic and clinical immunogenetics for M.Sc students of University of Delhi (South Campus) and Banaras Hindu University