ORGAN DONATION QUALITY MANAGERS TRAINING IN THE EUROPEAN TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ORGAN DONATION (ETPOD) PROJECT FOR AN EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPLANT PROCUREMENT OFFICES: 2388

Introduction Organ Donation Quality Managers Training was designed to provide participants with the theoretical, technical and practical know-how required to efficiently organize and manage a transplant procurement office concerning the quality indicators of the organ donation process success. This program was addressed to responsible of National, Regional, Local and Hospital organizations with high activity in organ procurement and transplantation. Aims · To provide the skills required for organizing, managing and evaluating a transplant area · To promote the implementation and evaluation of quality and safety measures in order to increase the organ donation in the target area Methods and materials: The Organ Donation Quality Managers Training program was based on practical learning including a face-to-face course and a research project. The course was designed, developed and implemented in English. It provided practice simulation of donation and transplantation procurement and lasted 3 days with a total of 24 academic hours. The research project consisted in a study about organ donation quality management in the participant’s Target Area that had to be approved by the participant’s National authority. As materials, the program used the Transplant Coordination Manual, a course guidance focussed on the major aspects of transplant procurement management (TPM –IL3 institute Barcelona, Spain), Donor world simulation and a private virtual platform. Results 23 participants from 15 countries attended The Organ Donation Quality Managers Training program, 9 women and 14 men, among whom, 15 doctors, 5 nurses, 2 economists, 1 manager with the following specialties: transplant coordinator, director, consultant and others. Data was gathered from 20 target areas from 14 countries regarding country cadaveric donation activity, target area population, legislation, number of ICU beds pmp (per million population), brain-death and cadaveric effective donorspercentage over ICU death, procured organs per cadaveric effective donor, types of donors, transplant programs and transplanted organs, staffing and personnel, clinical functions, financial resources, organ allocation model. Summary Using the methodology, resources and organizational structure already proven by the Coordinator organization through Transplant Procurement Management action, the ETPOD project designed and implemented a European training program for donor program managers in order to increase knowledge, skills and professional performance in organ donation.