Hello all,

I will be taking the SBB exam and wondering what information is available out there?  All information will be appreciated.....

You might be interested in the Last Chance Review webinar coming up Feb 13-14.

http://www.giveblood.org/education/sbb-last-chance-review-via-webinar/

 

I am signed up for this review. I also bought the books Specialist in Blood Banking: question bank and study guide and another book that I dont have the title of handy right now, but is from the AABB website, yellow cover

Search this site for SBB exam. You'll find a bunch of earlier threads with very good suggestions for 'must have' books.

I used the AABB Annual Meeting SBB review notes and the Transfusion Medicine Self-Assessment and Review book.

20 hours ago, tbostock said:

I used the AABB Annual Meeting SBB review notes

Where does one get a copy of this?

I, too, would be interested in any SBB material I can get my hands on... I'm not in a position to do a program now but I would really like to in the future.

Also, sign up for the Transfusion Medicine Question of the Day.  They vary from beginner to advanced, but you WILL learn something every day.

 

http://transfusionnews.com/subscribe/

 

Good call Terri.

when I took the test - 30 yrs ago (wow) - I studied from the Technical Manual, Mollison, Harmening and Race/Sanger.  I also had flash cards of all the blood groups with frequencies, etc.  New York Blood Center put on a program for all of us who were challenging the exam that year.  Also did some study with a friend of mine who went to SBB school and was taking the test the same year I was.  I was also lucky enough to be the last group that had a practical portion of the test - they sent unknowns if you passed the written portion.

Transfusion Medicine question of the day is excellent.  some of it is more for residents but you definitely will learn something - good call Terri.

Edited February 8, 20169 yr by David Saikin

Don't forget the AABB Standards.

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Mine was back in the easy days, which I think are similar to now.

My plan was pretty simple:

• Memorized Standards
• Memorized blood related CFRs
• Read the Technical manual twice (once was the two days prior to the test)
• Read Transfusion cover to cover for about 1 year
• Read Harmening's hematology book, not her blood bank book
• Started to read Isset, but my brain almost exploded

Took the test on a computer, this was pretty new back then.  Only a 100 questions down from the 200+ questions on the paper test, and clearly the wet work was long retired.  From what I was told by the "old timers", the paper test was pretty hard.

I heard a typical question went something like

Question
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Choices
1.  blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
2.  blah blah blah blah
3.  blah blah blah blah blah blah
4.  blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
5.  blah blah
6.  blah blah blah blah
7.  blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Answer - select one
a. 1, 2, 4
b. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7
c. 1, 3, 6
d. 4, 7
e. 3, 5, 6

From what I heard there were a lot of multiple multiple choice questions and the possible answers were always a - e.  My test only had a - d, so it was a 25% chance of guessing the right answer.

I would also recommend Human Blood Groups -  Geoff Daniels and the Judd's Methods in Immunohematology, which is published by AABB. The methods book will help you with special tests that you don't do and have never done.