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Fall 2015 proposal to update key personnel procurement requirements, aiming to simplify the application process, remove unnecessary specifics, and align standards. Addresses inconsistencies and enhances efficiency.
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Changes to Transplant Program Key Personnel Procurement Requirements Membership and Professional Standards Committee Fall 2015
What is the goal of the proposal? • Update key personnel procurement Bylaws to: • Correct unexplained inconsistencies • Clearly establish requirements that are currently viewed as optional • Remove unnecessary specificity • Accommodate applications that the MPSC generally believes are acceptable, but that it must reject due to current Bylaws requirements • Thereby, • Simplifying the key personnel application process for members and the MPSC
What problem will the proposal solve? • Inconsistent primary surgeon procurement requirements • Solution: • Delete primary kidney transplant surgeon multi-organ procurement requirement • Delete primary liver transplant surgeon donor selection and management requirement
What problem will the proposal solve? • The word “should” means Primary transplant physician aren’t required to observe organ procurements • Solution: • Use the word “must”
What problem will the proposal solve? • Questionable necessity of specifying primary transplant physicians must observe multi-organ donor procurements • Solution: • Delete primary transplant physician multi-organ procurement observation requirement • Exposure to multi-organ donors will likely occur without an explicit OPTN Bylaws requirement considering: • Proposed change that primary transplant physicians must observe at least three organ procurements • Multiple organs procured from the overwhelming majority of donors
What problem will the proposal solve? • Surgeons applying through fellowship pathway sometimes meet all requirements, but didn’t perform the requisite number of procurements during fellowship • Solution: • Allow applying surgeons to cite procurements performed both during their fellowship and 2 years after completion • Otherwise, must apply through clinical experience pathway
Supporting Evidence • Proposal stems directly from recommendations developed by a Joint Societies Working Group (JSWG) • Collaborative effort between: • American Society of Transplantation (AST) • American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) • North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO) • MPSC
How will members implement this proposal? • No immediate action required of members upon implementation • Membership and key personnel change applications submitted on or after the implementation date will be evaluated based on these requirements • Anticipated board review date – December 2015 • Anticipated implementation date – March 2016
How does this proposal support the OPTN Strategic Plan? • Promote the efficient management of the OPTN • Proposal addresses key personnel procurement requirements that are: • inconsistent • unnecessarily specific • needing additional flexibility
Questions? Jonathan Chen, MD Committee Chair jonathan.chen@seattlechildrens.org Regional representative name (RA will complete) Region X Representative email address Chad Waller Committee Liaison chad.waller@unos.org