With a Postgraduate Degree in Hematology, the British Hospital moves forward to a professional training

In agreement with the School of Medicine CLAEH, the British Hospital will be the headquarters of graduate Specialization in Hematology, lead by Dr. Pablo Muxi, main referent of the Institution´s Hematology Unit. The accomplishment of the postgraduate degree is carried out according to the strategic commitment policy with the British Hospital academic area, more specifically with the agreement cooperation celebrated with the Latin American Human Economy Centre (CLAEH), for the development research and scientific knowledge. "The British Hospital has had a very important development from the point of view of the infrastructure and the quality of care, in terms of admission, diagnosis, polyclinics, emergency, and so on. The next step is to become a health care referent, and develop other two supports that go along with the attention provided, medical education and research, "explained Muxi. He recalled that a degree in Traumatology is being carried out at the British Hospital, and said he hopes other medical specialties to follow this way. Dr.Muxi leads the British Hospital Hematology Unit, which was founded by Professor Dr. Roberto De Bellis 30 years ago, being a pioneer in South America regarding bone marrow transplant, becoming a reference point national and internationally. Well known professionals of the specialty are part of the unit, both as an academic and care level, having all the resources for the development of an educational plan in Hematology. Weekly athenaeums and readings of specialized publications are performed, joined to the research through international multi-centre clinical protocols, and its members keep a fluid link with other specialists in the country and of foreign reference centres, which have facilitated the exchange of knowledge and have also promoted research. “Any hospital of international reference and any reference centre where anyone would go provides not only assistance but also medical and research education," said Muxi. Teaching and research "involve the exchange between colleagues" because "there is no medicine performed alone. Medicine is a science which is done with art and in group”, he mentioned. These ideas have been applied in the Hematology Unit for about 10 years. "We work as a team that brings together the care of patients through athenaeums and weekly conferences, in which even physicians of other institutions take part of who come to nuture us and themselves as we produce and promote scientific publications in the same way. " Muxi insisted that "the practice of medicine nourishes from research and teaching" and he predicted that by this way the Hematology Unit will be transformed "into a national benchmark and why not into a regional or international one" of the specialty. The postgraduate degree will start next April the 11th, and it will last three curricular years divided into six semesters, they will be held at the British Hospital from April to September and from October to March, and participants will have the possibility of internships from 30 to 60 days in the hematological centres of international reference.