Program objectives
Program objectives: Multi-skilled specialization in HSC transplantation
At the end of your training, you will have acquired advanced knowledge and skills in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. You will also be able to fulfil a number of roles that will call upon your acquired versatility.
Roles and objectives
To become a…
Medical expert
This is the pivotal role of a physician within the CanMEDS framework. As a medical expert, you must:
- Function effectively as a consultant by integrating all of the CanMEDS roles in order to provide optimal, ethical and patient-centred medical care.
- Acquire and maintain theoretical and clinical knowledge, as well as specialized skills and attitudes appropriate to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation medicine.
- Put into practice the theoretical, basic, clinical and psychosocial knowledge that applies to stem cell transplantation.
- Provide support for transplant patients and their families
- Multidisciplinary approach
- Social and cultural aspects
- Legal and ethical issues
- Role of the family and community
- Demonstrate effective use of the CanMEDS framework competencies relevant to transplantation practice.
- Apply the concepts of continuous medical training in order to implement a personal program to keep up to date and enhance areas of professional competence.
- Contribute to the enhancement of quality care and patient safety in HSCT by applying available best evidence and adopting best practices.
- Perform complete and appropriate assessments of patients who are candidates for a transplant and evaluate their psychosocial background.
- Make effective use of interventions for treatment and the prevention of complications, while ensuring patients have an adequate understanding of procedures (consent forms).
- Use both diagnostic and therapeutic intervention techniques proficiently and appropriately.
- Consult, as needed, other health professionals whose expertise is required for suitable patient management (related specialists in multidisciplinary team, etc.)
Communicator
- Establish therapeutic relationships of trust and ethical respect with transplant patients and their friends and families.
- Gather and effectively summarize information relevant to patients’ conditions, as well as the opinions, hopes and fears expressed by them and their families, and validate the assessments of colleagues and other professionals who have evaluated patients (nurse navigator, social worker, dietician, psychologist and psychiatrist).
- Accurately convey relevant information and necessary explanations to transplant patients, their friends and families, referring physicians, colleagues and other professionals.
- Develop a common understanding of the risks and benefits related to procedures, as well as of the treatment plan, with patients, their friends and families, colleagues and the other professionals concerned in order to establish a shared overall care plan.
- Present oral and written information effectively.
- Provide consistent and efficient follow-up on medical referrals in a timely and respectful manner.
Collaborator
- Participate effectively and appropriately in the activities of a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
- Be familiar with individual roles and collaborate effectively with other health professionals in order to prevent interprofessional conflicts and, if necessary, negotiate and resolve them.
- Be familiar and work with community organizations and other professionals which can provide support for transplant patients and their friends and families.
Manager
- Participate in activities that contribute to the organizational effectiveness of the healthcare system (multidisciplinary meetings and conflict resolution).
- Manage their practice and career effectively.
- Make judicious use of the healthcare sector’s limited resources.
- Serve in administrative and leadership roles, as required.
- Coordinate discharge from the care unit and external patient management and organize the appropriate resources (CLSCs, transplant patient hospices, home care).
Health advocate
- Respond to the health needs and issues of patients with acute leukemia and malignant hematology, particularly those for whom a hematopoietic stem cell transplant is the sole issue.
- Respond to the health needs of the population they serve (training sessions for patients and their families, discussion forums, information about indications for referring physicians).
- Identify the determinants of health for the population they serve.
- Promote healthy lifestyles and attitudes in order to reduce the risk of post-transplant complications.
Scholar
- Maintain and enhance professional activities through ongoing learning.
- Critically evaluate medical information and its sources, and apply this appropriately to practice-related decisions, particularly in relation to transplant patient care.
- Facilitate knowledge acquisition for patients, their friends and families, students, residents, other health professionals, the public at large and other stakeholders (continuous medical education sessions).
- Contribute to the creation, dissemination, application and use of expert, innovative medical knowledge and practices.
Professional
- Demonstrate a commitment to patients and their families, their profession and society through ethical practice.
- Demonstrate a commitment to their transplant patients, their profession and society through participation in professional self-regulation.
