Tissue banking training courses: Polish experience
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Tissue banking training courses: Polish experience Artur Kaminski • Grzegorz Gut • Izabela Uhrynowska-Tyszkiewicz • Ewa Olender
Received: 30 May 2011 / Accepted: 24 January 2012 / Published online: 9 February 2012 Ó The Author(s) 2012. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract Personnel directly involved in the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissues and cells should be appropriately qualified and provided with timely and relevant training according to EU directives. In the time of new tissue and cells regulations implementation such a training system existed in Poland only at a local level. The first training programme outlines for various groups of health professionals engaged in tissue banking practice was created in co-operation with the Institute for LifeLong Learning at University of Barcelona in 2006. This initial training courses were financially supported by EU Transition Facility Programme 2004. Then, starting from 2006, based on previous experience, system of advanced training courses was created. This training programme was financially supported by the National Programme for the Development of Transplantation Medicine 2006–2009—POLGRAFT financed by Polish Ministry of Health. During 2006 and 2007 first set
of tissue banking initial training courses were provided according to TF 2004 project. Over 200 pathologists, forensic medicine specialists and other medical doctors responsible for donor screening and classification, medical directors of tissue establishments, technical staff; tissue graft users: orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, cardiosurgeons and ophthalmologists were trained. Between 2006 and 2009 there were organized 8 advanced tissue banking training courses according to POLGRAFT programme. There were organized both theoretical and practical courses on various aspects of tissue for over 350 persons. We present our experience in organisation of international and national tissue banking training courses. Keywords Tissue banking Training courses for medical professionals
Introduction A. Kaminski (&) G. Gut I. UhrynowskaTyszkiewicz E. Olender Department of Transplantology and Central Tissue Bank, Medical University of Warsaw, ul. Chalubinskiego 5, 02-004 Warsaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected] A. Kaminski G. Gut I. Uhrynowska-Tyszkiewicz E. Olender National Centre of Tissue and Cell Banking, Warsaw, Poland
Tissue banking is a highly specialized procedure that requires relevant professional qualifications of personnel involved in the donation, procurement, testing, preparation, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissue grafts. This is one of the key elements that affect the safety and quality of tissue grafts used for clinical applications. Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 31 March 2004 on setting standards of quality and safety for the
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donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human
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