Curriculum
Organ procurement from deceased and living donors
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Donation after brain death
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Donation after cardiac death
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Procurement of kidneys, liver and pancreas
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Laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy
Evaluation of the transplant donor
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Understanding primary considerations of donor and organ quality
Evaluation of the pre-kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant candidate
Care of the pre-transplant liver candidate
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Inpatient management of acute liver failure and decompensated chronic liver disease
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Pre-transplant management of HCC
Transplant Operations
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Back-table organ preparation of the kidney, liver, and pancreas
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Ex vivo reconstruction of complex anatomy
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Liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation
Inpatient care of peri- and post- transplant recipients
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Assessment and management of allograft dysfunction
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Management of post-transplant medical and surgical complications
Immunosuppression
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Understanding basic mechanisms of immunosuppression
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Ability to appropriately prescribe (individualized) regimens for induction, maintenance, and rejection immunosuppression
Basic understanding of expected outcomes after kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation
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Awareness of how donor, recipient, transplant, and post-transplant factors affect outcomes
Histocompatibility and crossmatching
Outpatient follow-up of transplant recipients
Familiarity with ethical dilemmas of transplantation
Transplant Pathology
Clinical Research
Basic Science Research – optional