Curriculum

 Organ procurement from deceased and living donors

• Donation after brain death
• Donation after cardiac death
• Procurement of kidneys, liver and pancreas
• Laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy

Evaluation of the transplant donor

• 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

• Inpatient management of acute liver failure and decompensated chronic liver disease
• Pre-transplant management of HCC

 Transplant Operations

• Back-table organ preparation of the kidney, liver, and pancreas
• Ex vivo reconstruction of complex anatomy
• Liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation 

Inpatient care of peri- and post- transplant recipients

• Assessment and management of allograft dysfunction
• Management of post-transplant medical and surgical complications

Immunosuppression

• Understanding basic mechanisms of immunosuppression
• Ability to appropriately prescribe (individualized) regimens for induction, maintenance, and  rejection immunosuppression 

Basic understanding of expected outcomes after kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation

• 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