Organ Donation and Transplantation

Code:

OPT246

Acronym:

DTO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Medicine
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	25	Plano Oficial 2021	5	-	2	19	54

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

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• Historical Perspective and Current Overview of Transplantation at National and International Levels


• Understanding the magnitude of the organ shortage problem and mortality on the waiting list


• Indications and conditions with end-stage organ failure for which transplantation is the only or best treatment option


• Ethical principles and legal framework for organ donation and transplantation


• Consent models for donation


• Specificities and challenges of living donors


• Basic concepts regarding issues faced by transplant patients


• Quality management system involved in the application of substances of human origin (organs, tissues, and cells)

Learning outcomes and competences

• Mastery of Transplantation Terminology to Clarify Misconceptions or Misunderstandings of Patients, Families, or Other Professionals


• Understand the process of diagnosing death by neurological or circulatory criteria


• Understand the organ allocation process


• Emphasize the quality and safety requirements at all stages of donor characterization, organ retrieval, allocation, and transplantation

Skills:

• Develop a proactive attitude in identifying donors


• Communication strategy for delivering bad news and introducing the opportunity for donation (verbal and non-verbal communication skills)


• Advocate for the donor's intentions


• Apply quality and safety principles in evaluating the potential donor and assessing transplant eligibility


• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team


• Ability to share knowledge with other professionals and the community


• Respect for the ethical and legal principles guiding organ donation and transplantation, distinguishing potential scenarios of illicit activity


• Identify potential complications in transplant patients and propose appropriate interventions

Working method

Presencial

Program

• Organ, Tissue, and Cell Transplantation – Where Do We Stand?


• Ethical principles and legal framework for organ donation and transplantation


• Types of organ donors: brain-dead donor, circulatory death donor, living donor


• Identification, maintenance, evaluation, and characterization of organ donors


• Communication strategy in end-of-life situations


• The living donor – ethical, legal, and social specificities


• The transplant recipient – eligibility criteria; complications and toxicity of immunosuppression; rejection; graft loss


• Organization of organ retrieval, allocation, and transplantation


• General principles of a Quality Management System for organ donation and transplantation

Mandatory literature

Council of europe; Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs, 2015
WHO; WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell,Tissue and organ Transplantation, 2010

Complementary Bibliography

National Transplant Organization,2011; Good Practice Guidelines in the Process of Organ Donation, National Transplant Organization, 2011

Teaching methods and learning activities

• Theoretical and Theoretical-Practical Classes


• Guidance from faculty in the evaluation processes of brain-dead and circulatory death donors, as well as the organization of organ retrieval and transplantation.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	19,00
Total:	19,00

Eligibility for exams

• Attendance Record


• Final Assessment

Calculation formula of final grade

The final grade is the score of the final exam divided by the maximum score, multiplied by 20.