The European Donor Health Care Project: fulfilling needs and challenges for the future

Abstract

The Donor Health Care project is a EU granted project to develop a learning programme for professionals working in the field of Donor Health Care. The innovation of this curriculum is the focus on all donors, irrespective of whether they donate blood, cells, tissues or organs. This article describes the background of the project and the current possibilities and limitations of European accreditation, distance learning and Master degrees.

Keywords

• donor
• donation
• education
• training
• blood
• cells
• tissues
• organs