Table 1.
Enrollment, attrition, and pass rates for students in the SBB program at the NIH Clinical Center, 1994–2019
Table 2.
Career positions in 2019 for SBB graduates from the NIH program, 1994–2019
| Area of employment | SBB graduates (N) |
|---|---|
| Hospitals, blood centers, or IRLs | 27 |
| Regulatory/quality assurance | 10 |
| Transplantation and cellular engineering | 3 |
| Industry | 3 |
| Education | 3 |
| Unrelated to blood banking | 2 |
| Not currently employed | 0 |
| Unable to confirm | 5 |
| Retired | 2 |
| Total | 55 |
Table 3.
Scholarship awards for SBB graduates from the NIH program, 1994–2019
Table 4.
Table 5.
| Project topic | SBB projects (N) |
|---|---|
| Laboratory practices | 14 |
| immunohematology | 11 |
| Blood group genomics | 8 |
| Transplantation and cellular engineering | 6 |
| Education | 5 |
| Blood donors and blood collection | 3 |
| Donor infectious disease testing | 3 |
| Quality assurance | 3 |
| Blood components | 2 |
| Total | 55 |
Table 6.
Sponsoring section for projects from SBB graduates from the NIH program, 1994–2019
Table 7.
Program value-added opportunities for SBB graduates from the NIH program, 1994–2019
| Feature | Topics | Items (N) | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publications | ABO discrepancy | 1 | 30 |
| Antibody detection | 1 | 40 | |
| Book review | 1 | 39 | |
| Competency | 1 | 37 | |
| Disseminated intravascular coagulation | 1 | 43 | |
| ISBT 128 | 1 | 31 | |
| Massive transfusion | 1 | 32 | |
| Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria | 1 | 38 | |
| Platelet contamination | 1 | 34 | |
| Platelets | 1 | 35 | |
| Quality | 1 | 36 | |
| Regulatory issues | 2 | 44, 49 | |
| Serologic methods | 1 | 45 | |
| Transfusion reaction investigation | 1 | 33 | |
| Social media activities | Transfusion Medicine Question of the Day | 4 | 42, 46−48 |
| Webcast (resolving serologic cases) | 1 | 41 | |
| Laboratory management and education | Audits | 19 | NA |
| cGMP module | 1 | NA | |
| Educational posters | 2 | NA |