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Transfusion Medicine Subject: a pioneering initiative in the Integrated Master Degree in FMUL
The Transfusion Medicine subject was taught for the first time in Portugal in 2013 in the Integrated Master Degree in Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
From the onset, this pioneering initiative had the unconditional support of the Scientific Council and of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, which immediately realized the importance of acquiring undergraduate knowledge in this field.
The Transfusion Medicine subject is coordinated by Dr Álvaro Beleza and Dr Miguel Galvão in collaboration with several specialist physicians from the Immuno-Hemotherapy Unit of the Northern Lisbon Hospital Centre, both in its theoretical and practical components. Starting on 16 September, this subject is part of the elective group of activities and its main objectives are to introduce students to some major areas of transfusion medicine, such as blood donation, obtaining blood components, the preparation and clinical use of blood components and derivatives, transfusion compatibility tests and histocompatibility, the use of apheresis techniques, cryobiology and cell therapy in transplantation, as well as be an approach to hypocoagulation and to pathology of congenital and acquired bleeding disorders, thus providing students with an interesting practical component.
The evaluation of the Transfusion Medicine elective activity, which was conducted by FMUL’s Internal Evaluation and Quality Assurance Multidisciplinary Team, falls within the scope of the teaching evaluation project, which aims to characterize the level of satisfaction regarding the pedagogical methods and content adopted in the elective syllabus of the Integrated Master Degree in Medicine.
We emphasize the evaluation of the clinical activity component in a four-category scale ( 1 – Inadequate, 2 – Not very Adequate, 3 - Adequate, 4 –Very Adequate) and the adequacy attributed to the indicators considered: A – Variety of the Pathologies Observed, B – Technical Execution/Procedures, C – Skills Acquisition, which show the good results perceived by students in the first initiative of this kind.
Source: Santa Maria Hospital’s website