Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Liver Transplant: the Ins and Outs
This online course explored the science and medicine behind liver transplants. The course covered the cellular constituents, anatomy and functions of the liver; the surgery itself; and ethical issues such as organ allocation. It included input from scientists, clinicians, surgeons and patients.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Patricia F. Lalor
Senior Lecturer
University of Birmingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Apply new knowledge of the structure and function of the liver to understand the signs of disease.
- Assess the major reasons for liver transplantation.
- Compare the stages of the operation to remove a diseased liver and insert a new one.
- Collect information about the history of liver transplantation and key transplant pioneers.
- Apply knowledge to understand how patients are cared for after the operation.
- Assess future alternatives to transplantation.
Syllabus
Explore the major issues surrounding liver transplant
You will hear from the surgeons who perform the liver transplant operation; the clinical staff who care for the patients; the liver transplant coordinators who help to source and allocate donor organs; and patients themselves about their experiences of liver transplant.
During this course, we explore the major issues that fascinate us:
- How is it possible to take an organ like the liver from one person and have it survive inside another?
- Have you ever wondered about the ethics of organ donation, and how organs should be allocated?
- Why is there such an increasing demand for donor livers for transplantation?
- And how can new advances increase the numbers of organs that are available for liver transplant?
Learn with experts from one of Europe’s largest liver transplant centres
The course is created by experts from the Centre for Liver Research at the University of Birmingham and the nearby Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This is one of Europe’s largest liver transplant centres, performing over 200 liver transplantations each year.
Issued on 19th September 2020
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