FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 26, 2002
CONTACT: Roland Ruiz, St. Philip's College Director of Community and Public Relations
210.531.4851
ST. PHILIP'S COLLEGE, SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE CENTER OFFER NEW DONOR SERVICES TECHNICIAN PROGRAM
A training partnership between St. Philip's College and the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center has created a new Donor
Services Technician certificate program that will begin offering courses in the spring 2003 semester beginning in January.
The intensive, eight-week training program will prepare students for a job as a donor services technician with the South
Texas Blood and Tissue Center and also make them eligible to take any of the national certification exams offered in
Phlebotomy. In addition to classroom instruction, students will go through a clinical rotation to gain hands-on training
in donor services.
The new program was developed jointly by St. Philip's and the Blood and Tissue Center to help address a local shortage of
qualified technicians in the donor services field. The curriculum will cover the areas of medical ethics/medical
terminology, customer services, donor record maintenance/donor deferrals, performing vital signs, basic venipuncture and
dermal stick procedures, whole blood collections, and reaction interventions.
For more information and details on how to register, call Dr. Jerri Reynolds in the St. Philip's College Allied Health
Department at (210) 531-3449 or email jreynold@accd.edu.
St. Philip's College, one of the Alamo Community Colleges serving the greater Bexar County region, is a comprehensive
community college designated as both a Historically Black College and a Hispanic Serving Institution. St. Philip's College
is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.