TEODOR, the most recent European project on training in organ donation and transplantation
TEODOR: Transeuropean Educational initiative in Organ Donation and Transplantation is an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission under the program KA2 - Strategic partnerships in the field of education and training.
This project will be developed between 2020 and 2023, aiming at designing and piloting a new and innovative training programme on organ donation and transplantation for physicians & relevant healthcare personnel from Latvia, Czech Republic, and Lithuania. The training will be implemented with the support of Spain and Sweden, given their expertise in organ donation and transplantation.
Partners:
- Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Latvia (Leader)
- DTI DONATION & TRANSPLANTATION INSTITUTE, Spain
- UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA, Spain
- SKANE LANS LANDSTING, Sweden
- Fakultní nemocnice Královské Vinohrady, Czech Republic
- National Transplant Bureau under the Ministry of Health, Lithuania
- University of Latvia, Latvia
TEODOR will address Key Professionals from:
- For organ and tissue donation, the Key Donation Professionals (KDPs) will include healthcare personnel from Intensive Care Units, Emergency Departments, Neuro-critical wards, organ donor/transplant coordinators
- For organ transplantation, the Key Transplantation Professionals (KTPs) Immunologists, transplant surgeons, internal medicine specialists managing the transplant patient before and after the surgical procedure such as nephrologists, hepatologists, cardiologists, pneumonologists, etc.
The project will last 36 months and will implement the following activities:
- Data analysis before and after TEODOR educational intervention, with the aim to evaluate the programme impact on learners’ knowledge and their clinical performance after the training implementation.
- Design and implement a Train the Trainers (TxT) programme targeting all the future trainers to be involved in the TEODOR training programme
- To design and implement the TEODOR modular multilevel blended training. Two modules for Donation Professionals and Transplantation Professionals will be designed following a multi-level pattern:
- LEVEL 1. BASIC. This first level aims to engage and motivate the TEODOR learners
- LEVEL 2. INTERMEDIATE. The current level will boost learning
- LEVEL 3. ADVANCED. The third level aims at reinforcing what has been learnt and facilitate its transfer to the clinical setting.
More information coming soon!
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DTI Challenge Game available at TTS Virtual Congress 2020
If you are attending the TTS Virtual congress 2020, we invite you to visit our Industry Corner space and start playing the DTI Challenge Game, a new, educational competition about organ donation and transplantation.
It will give you the opportunity to test your knowledge by challenging other TTS congress attendees in simple, double, triple and even in group challenges.
This app will not only be a fun way to play with your colleagues but also it will be useful for us in order to evaluate which are the trending topics of the Organ Donation and Transplantation field among the participants.
The more you play the more chances you have to enter into the raffle to win free access to one of our online courses!
The game will start on the 13th of September at 8am CEST and will be open until the 16th of September at 9pm CEST. Participants will have 24 more hours to complete their challenges.
The Atrivity app is available at Google Play, App Store & AppInChina. Download it and register here to play!
4 Webinar series as part of ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centre Program
Since 2016, the South Philippines Medical Center (SPMSC) got into engagement with the University of Barcelona (UB), Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (HCB), DTI foundation, and more recently, Fundació Puigvert, in the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program; a joint partnership facilitated by International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and The Transplantation Society (TTS) to develop existing Kidney Transplant programs in emerging countries. Since then, several activities have been organized to promote knowledge and experience exchange between healthcare and educational institutions from Davao (Philippines) and Barcelona (Spain) regarding donation and transplantation.
Considering the current pandemic crisis, the team involved in the program decided to adapt the next initiatives to prioritize COVID-19 outbreak as an immediate concern to the international heathcare system and professionals.
Therefore, between June 11th and July 3rd a series of 4 Webinars have been organized, each of them focused on a current topic related to COVID-19, in order to share useful information between experts from our centers: Dr Josep Maria Miró, Dr Joan Ramon Badia, Mrs Carme Hernández, Dr José Jesús Broseta, Dr David Paredes and Dr Fritz Diekmann from Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and University of Barcelona; Dr Leopoldo Vega, Dr Maria Elinore Alba-Concha, Dr Ricardo B. Audan and Dr Maria Theresa Bad-ang from Southern Philippines Medical Center; Dr Anna Vila from Fundació Puigvert and Dr Chloë Ballesté and Dr Entela Kondi from DTI Foundation.
The webinar series were open and disseminated to the large public, although specifically targeted for the Southern Philippines Medical Center’s healthcare professionals, reaching a total of 494 attendees.
DTI Foundation presents an innovative project: I-DTI
Suitable training of healthcare professional is a key aspect to increase the organ donation and transplantation rates. I-DTI aims to implement an online consultancy platform that will allow knowledge exchange between healthcare professionals for the purpose of helping solve doubtful donation scenarios and therefore increase the donor pool.
I-DTI has an important value in supporting programs for developing countries with limited access to knowledge.
Focused on consultancy and messaging services and discuss specific scenarios with a team of recognized experts, I-DTI allows users to create and share knowledge in chat groups, upload files and discuss specific scenarios with a team of recognized experts.
More features such as chat bot are under construction and will be available in the future. Also, I-DTI is offering a free trial until September to help during the COVID-19 global situation.
Go to I-DTI’s website to learn more and sign up for free I-DTI experience!
Annual activity report 2019
We are glad to present you the Annual Report of DTI Foundation for 2019.
To know more about our activity (Educational programs; Congresses attendance; DTI Social; European and other International Projects..) you can take a look here!
https://issuu.com/dtifoundation/docs/dti_2021_eng_issuu
30th edition of the Advanced course in Spanish language
The annual edition of the “Curso Superior Internacional en Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos” took place from the 11th to the 13th of February. Since 1991, this has been the 30th edition of the course in Spanish language. So far, a total of 1356 participants from Spain and Latin America have been trained, including the 41 attendants of this course.
The course has been carried out for three days in Barcelona and Sant Hilari Sacalm. Teamwork in small groups and a good educational environment have favoured the knowledge acquisition.
An innovative element to be highlighted is the collaboration of the social robot “James”, who accompanied the teachers and students during the course.
The evaluation results have been very positive, with an overall average of 4.93 over 5.
Our congratulations to all the faculty and staff members who have made the course another success!
8th Intermediate TPM course in Slovenia
Our long-lasting relationship with Slovenija-transplant has resulted in the 8th TPM Intermediate course addressed to Slovenian health care professionals. Thirty-three participants have been trained in this edition, which has taken place in the beautiful Logarska-dolina from the 29th to the 31st of January.
One new feature of the course program has been the inclusion of the donation after circulatory death topic, as the they 
would like to start implementing DCD program in Slovenian hospitals. Our special thanks to Dr. Danica Avsec and the faculty team for making the course successful.
VI International Workshop on Uncontrolled and Controlled DCD
The VI International Workshop on Uncontrolled and Controlled DCD, organized by Aula Clinic, Hospital Clinic and DTI Foundation has recently been held in Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain. The two full days of activities included clinical cases and lectures related with practices regarding the results of transplantation for organs like kidney, liver, lung and heart.
The 42 participants from 13 countries also attended four workshops including organ recovery in animal lab, created with the aim of better understanding the best practices performed in DCD around the world. These professionals have been taught about how this organ donation system for transplantation works in different countries in Europe and new proposals have been made for further improvement.
DCD now contributes to 24% of deceased donors in Spain so local speakers, together with experts from England and Italy shared with the audience their experience, progresses, discussing about solutions for obstacles, concerns, and possible actions to go forward.
The participants are very satisfied with the course underlining the importance of the new expertise acquired in the fields of uncontrolled and controlled DCD.
ODISSeA – Launch of Postgraduate Programme in Organ Donation
On January 7th 2020, the Postgraduate Programme in Organ Donation started with 303 participants from Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand.
The aim of the Postgraduate comes from the need for a specialized training programme that builds adequate knowledge, skills and attitude in organ donation to improve the number of specialists that will efficiently coordinate the process of organ donation in these Southeast Asian countries.
During the next 9 months, the participants will be trained in through a blended methodology (online and face-to-face), including: webinars with international experts, self-study online modules, local seminars, on-the-job improvement projects, an awareness event and an international assessment seminar. The participants will count on the support of international experts in the field, as well as their local faculty, who previously completed the ODISSeA Train the Trainers programme. They will accompany and support the participants throughout the postgraduate, and will translate the theoretical knowledge to the local reality.
These participants will be the first generation to complete the Postgraduate Programme in Organ Donation certified and, equivalent to 30 ECTS.
Kunming international meetings in December
Two international meetings have taken place in Kunming, China, from 4 to 8 December 2019, with the common theme of organ donation. Jointly organized by the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation (COTDF) and DTI Foundation - Donation & Transplantation Institute, were hosted by the First People's Hospital of Kunming and the Affiliated Ganmei Hospital of Kunming Medical College.
The 1st International Workshop on Leadership, Management, Quality & Innovation in Organ Procurement was held from December 4 to 6. The Workshop's was organized through a dynamic and innovative training methodology and it was attended by 86 participants from 36 countries. As a result of this international meeting, a set of agreed recommendations were reached to strengthen organ donation in the countries of the One Belt & One Road Initiative, with the intention of being published in a next future.
Moreover, the next two days, December 7 and 8, the 4th China International Organ Donation Conference (CIODC) & the One Belt & One Road Symposium on Organ Donation Development and International Cooperation, brought together 1,200 international representatives who jointly discussed the latest trends and challenges that the Belt & Road region countries face in organ and tissue donation programs.
Our gratitude goes to all those involved in this great project and their commitment with the best practices of organ donation around the world!
