Hematologic and oncologic diseases cover a wide array of dynamic conditions involving the lymphohematopoietic system and multiple organs in adult patients. This rotation will provide the student with a working knowledge of the diagnosis and management of the most common hematology and oncology disorders. Patients in both the inpatient and outpatient setting may have a variety of diseases, including anemia, clotting disorders, hypercoagulable states, necessity for transfusion of blood or is components, cytopenias, and a wide variety of benign and malignant neoplasms (especially breast, GI, lung, prostate, lymphoproliferative, leukemias, plasma cell dyscrasias). Additional opportunities for further education in counseling risk reduction and screening of malignancy, basics of diagnostic testing (bone marrow biopsy, cytogenetics, immunophenotyping, clotting assays, hypercoagulable state studies, hemoglobin electrophoresis, iron studies, staging imaging studies, serum/urine electrophoresis, tumor markers), therapeutic options for malignancy (chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgical intervention). The student will attend weekly Grand Rounds and Internal Medicine block conference.