Education in Transfusion Medicine

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Education in Transfusion Medicine

• Ghazi Damanhouri
• FRCPath FRCPI FRCPA
• King Abdulaziz university
• College of Medicine
• Department of Hematology
• Dean , Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences
• President of Saudi Scociety of sickle cell
  anemia and thalassemia
• ATMC , Demascus 5-8 Nov 2008 , Syria

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EDUCATION

• Encompasses both the teaching and learning

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Education

• Its goal is the increasing of individual and
  group
• capacities
• skills
• values
• understanding and preferences
• experience

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EDUCATION

• To achieve these goals we should have
• Adequate preparation
• Appropriate methods
• Continuous Improvement
• Accept Critiques

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Transfusion medicine

• Is the branch of medicine that is concerned with
  the transfusion of blood and blood components.

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TRANSFUIONEST

• Physicians from a wide range of backgrounds can
  be eligible for board certification in
  Transfusion Medicine following a 1-2 year
  fellowship

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Blood Transfusion

• Is one of the important tools in medicine and
  plays an important and very significant role in
  the management of patients.

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• Blood transfusion has particularly close links
  with many of the specialist areas of the
  hospital, such as

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Transfusion Medicine

• Audits of clinical transfusion practice have
  consistently demonstrated deficiencies in
  knowledge and practice that impact on patient
  safety and in some cases result in death.
• e-Learning and transfusion medicine Auteur(s) /
  Author(s)
• PETERSON D. ROBINSON K. VERRALL T.
  QUESTED B. SAXON B

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Deficiencies

• Include
• transfusion being prescribed inappropriately
• administration of blood components using poor
  processes,
• documentation deficiencies and
• inadequate identification of potential
  transfusion recipients

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education

• Of medical, nursing and other staff involved in
  the transfusion chain Is Essential
• and should be a
• Priority

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• There is a great need for highly qualified,
  skillful and trained health Care physicians and
  Scientists so that they can provide an
  up-to-date, high quality service that supports
  patient care

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• Looking at the situation in our regoin we will
  find many countries in this part of the world
  still struggle in providing the proper
  international standard of education and
  qualification to almost all health care providers
  in this field of medicine

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Education
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Education
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Education

• Is central to development and a key to attaining
  the Millennium Development Goals
• It is one of the most powerful instruments for
  reducing poverty and inequality and lays a
  foundation for sustained economic growth
• Education also promotes economic growth, national
  productivity and innovation, and values of
  democracy and social cohesion.

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What To Do ?????
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A Chang Is What We Need

• Changing the culture of medical education
• Developing an effective continuous medical
  education (CME) .
• Forming if possible a highly productive working
  relationship between a selective professionals
  and specialized centers in blood transfusion in
  our region capable of providing the best
  available education and learning skills in
  transfusion medicine to all health care provides
  (Doctors, Scientists and Nurses) .

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Can We Do It ????

• Yes We Can
• This require
• Believing
• Motivation
• Dedication

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Proposed Plan

• Our Scope of vision is
• to increase and standardize the level of
  knowledge
• to increase the interest among the
  officials and decision makers
• to exchange knowledge and experience in
  the regoin

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Proposed Srategy

• To establish a core of regional and international
  groups to look at and evaluate
• The existing facilities
• The existing Diplomas , MScs and PhDs ,
  . Fellowships ..
• The existing corriculums
• To set up a time table to kick of the
  ball

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gdamanhouri_at_kau.edu.sa