Great results among the participants in Tissue course in Lisbon

Instituto Português do Sangue e da Transplantação, Portugal, along with TPM-DTI, Barcelona, organized a face to face Tissue Banking Course in Lisbon on November 9-10, 2015, to improve tissue donation in the country.

A total of 27 healthcare professionals from 12 different cities of Portugal (out of which 12 MDs and 10 RNs) joined the course. Theory blended with seminars and workshops boosting great interest among participants. Various types of evaluations were performed and the results are rewarding. More than 70% of the final evaluation test was correctly answered. Participants scored the course with 4.65 and found it highly applicable to their job: 4.50 (on a scale from 1-poor to 5 –excellent).

They greatly appreciated experts’ professionalism and commitment as well as the effort of the Portuguese national institute in donation and transplantation along with TPM-DTI, to provide a high quality training program in tissue donation.