How do I become a donor ?
Application
Please review the following information before you proceed.
Please download, print out and fill out the following forms by hand.
- Preliminary Screening Sheet
- Donor Egg Abstract
- Risk Factors
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Long Island IVF
625 Belle Terre Road
Suite 200
Port Jefferson, NY 11777 - Arrest history search for alcohol related offenses
- Arrest history search for narcotics related offenses
- Arrest history search for vice related offenses
- Motor vehicle search for alcohol related offenses
- Civil financial check to determine if financial difficulties may have been brought on by abuses.
- Blood tests to determine general health, and confirm the absence of certain communicable diseases
- Gynecology exam including cultures for communicable diseases
- Genetic screening
- Drug testing by hair samples, a more definitive testing method
If you are unable to download and print these forms for any reason, please contact our office at (877) 936-6283 and we will mail you one in a plain envelope within 7-10 days.
It is very important that you fill out these forms by hand.
After completing all three forms please mail them to:
Psychological Screening
The donor egg team will review your application. You will be notified in writing if your application does not meet our current needs. If you are selected to proceed, you will be contacted and then referred to Aviva Zigelman LCSW for psychological screening. At Long Island IVF, the average psychological screening involves several visits with a donor to obtain a complete psychosocial history. A comprehensive psychological test called the Minnesota Multi-phasic Personality Inventory-2 is administered and analyzed. The in depth psychological test is designed to evaluate the donor's propensity for psychiatric or personality disorders which may interfere with or be aggravated by the donor process. During this screening, the donor's motivations for donating eggs are explored. The screening attempts to evaluate donors for their ability to follow through on life decisions and complete long-term projects/processes. In addition, a background check by a Private Investigator may be deemed necessary. The check may include:
In the event that a questionable incident does arise in our investigators research, additional interviewing is conducted until we are satisfied that the donor is of good character; otherwise, the prospective donor will not be accepted into the program.
Completion of the psychological screening process is then followed by a medical exam.
Medical Exam and Evaluation
If all of your screening test results are satisfactory then your application, also known as an abstract, is made anonymous by removing identifying information such as name etc. Your abstract is then made available to patients who need donated eggs. If your abstract is selected you will move onto the next step in the donation process.
The anonymous donor does not know who the recipient of her eggs will be. Likewise, except for some basic physical and psychological characteristics, the recipient does not know the identity of the egg donor. About 80% of donors are anonymous. The known donor, on the other hand, is a woman who is known to the recipient either as a relative or as a friend through introduction.