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Transfusion Camp
Welcome to Transfusion Camp course portal
What is Transfusion Camp?
Transfusion Camp is an education program that aims to increase transfusion knowledge and best practice by providing high-quality and relevant transfusion medicine (TM) training to Canadian postgraduate medical residents in various specialties related to transfusion at medical schools across Canada. Transfusion Camp is also delivered in partnership to residents in the United Kingdom. Transfusion Camp curriculum has been adapted to provide TM education to Canadian nurse practitioners (currently in British Columbia) and to medical professionals in low-resource countries (currently in Rwanda).
Transfusion Camp has been recognized as a novel and scalable approach to delivering effective TM education. See our publications on PubMed to learn more.
Any enquiries regarding Transfusion Camp and the course portals should be directed to Transfusion Camp organisers at transfusioncamp@blood.ca.
What Transfusion Camp participants need to know?
- Resources provided for Transfusion Camp are for educational purposes only. They are not intended to be a substitute for the advice of an authorized prescriber and should be assessed in the context of the applicable medical, legal, and ethical requirements in any individual case. The authorization to prescribe blood and blood products should also be confirmed with the jurisdiction that one is practicing in.
- Access to Transfusion Camp course portals is restricted to registered Transfusion Camp participants. Do not share the portal’s password and do not use or distribute resources outside of Transfusion Camp without the consent of the Transfusion Camp organizers.
- Each Transfusion Camp course portal is specific to a singular Transfusion Camp and provides resources to support participants' learning. Participants should review resources ahead of attending Transfusion Camp and anytime during the year.
- Resources available on the course portals include:
- Course program & schedule: An overview of the program, topics covered and course dates.
- Learning objectives: A description of the course learning objectives.
- Pre-readings: Selected publications intended to prepare participants for attending lectures and seminars.
- Lecture slides: Slides of lectures posted ahead of the live synchronous presentations.
- Lecture recordings: Video recordings of lectures posted after each synchronous presentation. Participants attending the Camp asynchronously must watch the lecture recordings before attending the seminars.
- Key learnings: A summary of key learnings.
- Seminars: A guide for participating in the seminars. As well as, cases discussed during the seminars are posted without answers ahead of the live synchronous seminars and posted with answers after Transfusion Camp.
- To maximize the learning experience, participants are asked to refrain from excessive use of interruption devices (mobile phones) while attending Transfusion Camp and to arrange not to be on call/service the nights before and the days of the lectures and seminars.
- To inform Transfusion Camp curriculum and delivery, participants are encouraged to complete evaluations and feedback surveys.