Evaluation of transplant procurement management courses: an educational project as a tool for the optimization of transplant coordination.

The process of obtaining organs and tissues includes a series of procedures and skills that are fundamental to obtain a large number and high quality of transplants. Health professionals involved in transplant coordination require robest and comprehensive training to integrate the donation-transplantation process within the clinical health care field. Based on a learning-through-experience model, Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) designed various courses adapted to local educational need to train transplant coordinators, to increase active donor detection, and to promote a positive attitude towards donation; namely, Advanced, Introductory and New Life Cycle courses respectively.