Chinese professionals came to Barcelona
On the framework of the collaboration program between DTI Foundation and China, a group of health care professionals came to Barcelona at the end of January.
The visitors are all students of TPM Master and came to attend the Transplantation module of the Master, held at the University of Barcelona on 28th and 29th of January. The professional profile of the visitors was surgeons (kidney and liver transplant surgeon) and ICU doctors.
During these days all the team had the pleasure to go with the guests in the installations at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and to show the everyday practice of the donation and transplantation programs in our hospital. Meetings with the transplant coordinators, the experts of kidney, liver, heart and pancreas transplantations were organized. The visit at the Immunological Laboratory and the meeting with the Chairman of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona were very much appreciated by the visitors.
Moreover, a visit in the Hospital 12 de Octubre and the National Transplant Organization (ONT) in Madrid was made. In this way the guest doctors had the opportunity to visit another big hospital and to evaluate the similarities and the differences between both hospitals; 12 de Octubre Madrid and Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. Dr. Eduardo Martin, an ONT member, presented the Spanish model view and the latest data on the Spanish transplantation and donation activities.
