Clinical Skills:

During the training program the resident:

1. Manages organ donors;
   
   
2. Performs organ harvest and preservation;
   
   
3. Performs cardiac transplantation;
   
   
4. Manages the cardiac transplant recipient preoperatively and postoperatively;
   
   
5. Participates in the immunosuppressive therapy for cardiac transplantation;
   
   
6. Evaluates transplant recipients for signs of rejection or infection and initiates appropriate therapy;
   
   
7. Performs endomyocardial biopsy.