[Transfusion medicine].

It is important to establish educational system for every subjects of clinical pathology. In the transfusion medicine, in order to establish the GIO and SBO, a questionnaire survey on postgraduate education system was conducted on 98 institutes of laboratory medicine on university hospital and laboratories of hospital. As a results, over 50% of institutes are able to educate residents to these subjects (as SBOs). The most important need for clinical pathologists or laboratory physician to act a consultant for physicians about safety and effective transfusion medicine. Moreover, clinical pathologists has an ability to administer the department of transfusion.