This unique educational program for organ perfusionists focuses on all aspects of machine perfusion, including liver, kidney, heart and lung perfusion. More information about how to register can be found under the tab 'Costs and registration'.
The educational program is part of the Healthy Ageing and Long-term Care cluster.
The program is intended for those who aspire to have a position as organ perfusionist or those who already work as one. Prior education requirements include: Bachelor of technical medicine/clinical technology/medicine, or(CZO-)diploma of clinical perfusionist. If you do not meet the requirements but have a comparable level of education, please contact us.
This educational program provides you with hands on training, theoretical knowledge and practical tips and tricks on how to become an organ perfusionist. Besides being taught by world-renowned experts, you will become part of an international community that focusses on the development of our profession, thereby learning with and from colleagues all over the world.
The educational program is divided into two modules existing of 16 live (online) teaching days, three hands on training weeks at the UMCG and two online assessments. In preparation to the teaching days and training weeks, you will get access to e-learnings with state of the art research papers, videos and guiding questions.
Module 1
Fundamental knowledge about organ donation, physiology and biomechanics will be discussed. The process of organ donation has a major impact on the quality of the graft. This section includes country-specific laws and regulations, the organ allocation system, donor criteria and donor management. Teachers for organ donation are drs. Sijbrand Hofker, drs. Gjalt Westland, drs. Meint Volbeda, and Marjan Bijmolen.
Physiology underlies all processes in the human body. After a short recap of the in vivo physiology this section goes into detail on the physiological processes behind ischemia and reperfusion. Furthermore, the physiology of an organ during ex vivo machine perfusion will be discussed. There are different preservation strategies developed in order to preserve, improve or test donor organs. Teacher for physiology is Prof. dr. Henri Leuvenink.
Machine perfusion relies on common basic biomechanical principles, which will be discussed during the biomechanics section. Teachers for biomechanics are clinical perfusionists dr. Roland Hoffmann and Sandra Horsten, Msc.
Module 2
Organ perfusion and resuscitation has proven its value in outcomes after transplantation. Knowledge of the relevant anatomy, ex vivo physiology, procurement and surgical backtable, specific perfusion protocols, and troubleshooting are essential in order to perform a successful perfusion. Specific knowledge about liver, kidney, heart, and lung perfusion, and normothermic regional perfusion will be discussed.
Teachers for liver perfusion are Prof. dr. Robert Porte, dr. Vincent de Meijer, and dr. Hans Blokzijl. Teachers for kidney perfusion are Prof. dr. Stefan Berger and dr. Cyril Moers. Teacher for heart perfusion is dr. Vincent van Suylen. Teachers for lung perfusion are dr. Erik Verschuuren and dr. Caroline van de Wauwer. Teachers for normothermic regional perfusion are Gabriel Oniscu and Fiona Hunt.
For Dutch students: we are working on a CZO accreditation.
Wenckebach Institute for Education and Training in collaboration with the UMC Groningen Transplant Center
The registration fee is € 4.880,-. Drinks, lunches and two dinners during the contact weeks are included. Travel and accommodation costs are not included.
Are you interested in participating? Send an e-mail to: [email protected] and we will inform you as soon as you can register.
Wenckebach Instituut voor Onderwijs en Opleiden
School of Nursing & Health
(t) 050 – 361 17013 (e) [email protected]
