IFASC
International Family Approach Specific Course
A technical and scientific training course to approach the families of brain-dead people.
Our Goals on IFASC
– Improving the knowledge of interviewers
– Reducing family trauma
– Increasing family consent rate
– Increasing the number of transplantable organs
– Saving people’s lives
IFASC's Details
Date: 10th – 13th June 2024
Duration: 40-hours in 4 consecutive days
Capacity: up to 50 participants
Language: English
Participants
– Donor Coordinators
– Health professionals involved in organ donation (ICU Doctors, Emergency rooms doctors, intensivists, anesthesiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons & …)
– Nurses involved organ donation (ICU, Emergency room, Operating room, supervisors and matrons)
– OPO/OPU directors
– Psychologists
– Social workers
Faculties
National and International professionals with a high level of expertise in the family approach and communication skills field.



Course Fee
For Each Person
Normal fee: 750 US Dollars
Developing & Emerging countries: 500 US Dollars
To register the course. click on this button and fill the form. Select your country from the list. If you will participate as a group, enter the desired number of people and after clicking the add to cart button, enter the cart and complete the initial form and continue the purchase process until payment. In the following, you will be sent a link to the relevant questionnaire to collect basic information and create a user account and the relevant guide. Complete it and wait for our call.
Course Methods
In this training course, we use different methods to improve the education and understanding of the content by the audience.
Here you can see some parts of the course

General theory classes

Group consultation rooms

Game learning

Role playing

Movie learning

Memories station

Q&A panel

Donor Plus

Daily and final exams
Topics
- Basic
- Communication skills
- Data gathering
- Preparation
- Breaking bad news
- Acute reaction management
- Supportive relationship
- Request for organ donation
- Naming refusal reasons

family’s negative opinions about consent to organ donation
- Worries about delay in funeral
- Worries about body integrity
- Negative influential people
- Assertive Refusal
- Religious beliefs
- Social problems
- miracle
- Denial
- Guilt
- Not knowing the deceased wishes
- Health system dissatisfaction
- Refusal for no exact reason
- Tribal-Ethnical Restrictions
- Distrust in organ allocation
- Presumed Refusal in Life
- Not knowing brain death
- Fear of relatives’ blame
- Financial expectations
- Requesting more time