 So good morning or good afternoon everybody. My name is Ed Delaney the current chair of the profusion program director's council I'm also the current vice chair of the accreditation committee for profusion education and I'm a past member of the American Board of Cardiovascular Profusion and What I want to do is talk to you and explain a little bit about what the profusion program director's council has been up to what our role is in In perfusion and how we tend to make changes over the next few years If you look at the current slide, you see our new logo We've been updating our website and I'm in concurrent subsequent slides. I'm going to talk about that general purpose of the profusion program director's council Each of us obviously are running a program We're doing that with a clinical coordinator Or we are a dual role of clinical coordinator So we're educating and mentoring students every day, but this council itself is there provided exchange of information on scientific educational Issues that come up with the program directors and what we're looking to do is enhance the education process and The technology that we're using to educate So we provide representation to and become a vehicle for the receipt of information from other perfusion organizations professional societies That have input into the profession. It's education and accreditation processes and we provide a unified voice For perfusion education So one of the interesting things that you may or may not know about the program directors We have a role on the accreditation committee for perfusion education. It's what we call the ACPE The ACPE is a co that's a committee on accreditation And we fall under kehab accreditation so the Responsibilities of a program director are as follows and these are set forth in the standards and guidelines That are part of the ACP standards and guidelines The program director must be responsible for the organization administration and periodic review continued development and general effectiveness of their programs The clinical assignments of the program director must allow adequate time for administration teaching and responsibilities You have to have a degree equivalent to the level that the program confers So if you're certificate, you need certificate if you're certificate and bachelors You would need a bachelor's degree If you are a master's program, you would need a master's degree and then if you're a PhD program, you would need a PhD You need five years of professional experience as a perfusionist two years of experience as a clinical instructor accredited in an accredited educational program or Experience in instructional methodology curriculum design program planning or counseling So in addition to these qualifications the program director also serves as the clinical coordinator in some or on some programs and This person must have current American board of cardiovascular perfusion certification The program director should always hold an advanced degree This is where the programs currently are. So this is where each of us Kind of resides our home base for the schools. There are currently 21 Programs and some are in the accreditation process and some are fully accredited But in the in the last two years We've had two programs that are still in the accreditation process and two new programs So we're a total 21 program directors that are currently on the council And I believe at this point 19 have voting rights This is who the profusion program directors collaborate with so we collaborate with the two national Societies the American Academy of cardiovascular profusion the American Society of extracorporeal technology the American board of cardiovascular profusion our credentialing body Also the extracorporeal life support organization the ACP that's our committee on accreditation The Commission on accreditation allied health education and program That's our creditor our overall accreditor and then from time to time We we liaison with a number of other profusion organizations state societies etc Just who is kf? Well, they're the Commission on accreditation of allied health education And their mission is to provide value to stakeholders by setting standards for quality assurance and health professions Education and that organization accredits over 2500 programs in over 30 health professions and including profusion So accreditation essentially what it is is you're reviewing the process is that assure educational programs meet minimal standards and For us as program directors, we submit information to the co at the ACP Every year and then there's a full review about every 10 years or sooner So we report any kind of changes sufficiency of resources including personnel facility program facilities Instructional equipment supplies and clinical sites and then a large Portion of our evaluation processes for each program and this is what a lot of us liaison on this on this committee Is retention of students positive placement of students? American board credentialing exam success graduate satisfaction employer satisfaction summative measures and verification of student competency So why is accreditation important? It's important because it assures education programs meet minimal standards It contributes to the patient safety And qualifies graduates for certification through the American board of cardiovascular profusion process So the ACP and I think it's important to talk about this group because they have such an impact on the programs and accreditation And this is a group that cooperates with k-hop to establish maintain and promote appropriate standards of quality for education programs in perfusion and Essentially what they do is they evaluate the perfusion education program and recommended accreditation to k-hop That has the overall final decision whether a program is accredited or not and These are the sponsoring organization So each organization has two members on the ACP and they have an alternate So the members of the American Academy of cardiovascular profusion the American board of cardiovascular profusion profusion program directors council American Society of extra-corpal technology American Association for thoracic surgery society for up thoracic surgeons society of cardiovascular anesthesiologists and One of the biggest things that the ACP does is they review and set the standards and guidelines And that's the standards and guidelines that all the programs have to follow So the profusion program directors council has a number of updates and the biggest update that we have For this talk is a new website So we've been in the process of picking a new logo and and and we've been redesigning our website And the reason we're doing this is because we're looking to get additional information out to the Program directors themselves the profusionists the students and the clinical preceptors We're going to talk a little bit about the additional programs we've added We're going to talk about our goal of streamlining processes and then our our continuous goal of liaison with profusion organizations Recently one of the liaison tasks that we did was we aligned with the American board and We've agreed both both groups have agreed to post our programmatic numbers from all the profusion programs and The attrition rate of the American board on both websites So there'll be a tab on the profusion program director of council's website where you'll have the attrition rates From the American board and you'll have the programmatic numbers of the number of students We've accepted and graduated and the reason this is important is because we're trying to provide better information For people to make decisions We're trying to provide better information for all those future of profusion talks that you kind of sit through To have a better understanding of current trends and employment numbers and what the needs of the profession are when it comes to putting out programs putting out profusionists And where we are On our program, you're going to see some some things like counter events So we're going to have our events and meetings you're going to program information So you'll be able to go up and look at each program and see the information of the program the number of months You'll be able to see the current director. You'll be able to have a link to the website There'll be a spot for resources for the program directors themselves So committee works things like that that we're currently working on and then there'll be resources for preceptors and clinical instructors There'll be resources for students. We're designing a student webpage With the goal to put student opportunities on there so they can use that as a resource and then this is kind of our current Opening webpage and what you see on there basically it'll tell a little bit about the program directors council It'll have our calendar. It'll list all the programs You'll be able to look at each of the 21 programs that are currently out there You'll there'll be a number of resources And then they'll have contact information for the program directors Where you will have frequently asked questions and we'll also have an email address where we can answer questions And then like I like I said before we're 21 directors with experience with vast experience and perfusion with diverse backgrounds So this is a part of the website and this is the programs and this is kind of what it'll look like as As as we finish in building it so you'll have the programmatic information the director the degree conferred You'll have a link to the website phone number you'll have address etc and That'll be for all 21 programs So the program directors themselves have a committee homepage And I thought it was important to talk about some of the committees we have we have a website committee obviously To make sure that we're keeping current with the technology and to provide value services To the profusionist students preceptors and each other We back we're actually looking at what information is out there on international accreditation And and where programs are with liaisoning with Other schools other countries other programs and we're just gathering information at this time and Then one of the newest committees is a standardization committee What we really want to do is we want to streamline processes. We want to streamline processes with our coa the ACP We want to streamline processes with the American board and Collaborate with these groups and we also want to streamline our own process among amongst each program Here's one of the examples of the resources. This is where you'll be able to find the preceptor education Information we actually have a link to the ACP website where you can go on and do some preceptor education We put the the information on our website too And then we have the attrition statistics and this is where you'll see the programmatic numbers and the American board attrition rates So this is the programmatic numbers that you'll be able to see under that resource and so it tells you the degree conferred the school admissions for the last two years and What what we're graduating in the last two years? And if you look at the very end you can see you can see the summative numbers of what we've admitted what we've graduated and The one thing I can say is at 269 That's not exact because there are some programs that are that are more than 21 months There's two and three years. So that is not an exact number. So it doesn't mean that if you had had 246 admitted that you should necessarily graduate 246 in that year of 2021 But what it means is just essentially what we admitted that year and what we are graduating that year Other students may still be in a process if it's a longer program And then what we were going to have up there is the American board attrition rate So we have these numbers kind of side by side with each other and If you looked if you saw the last page you saw that we were putting out 220 perfusionists in 2022 and The the law certifications for 2021 are about 112 So I borrowed a couple of slides from the liaison panel And what this slide shows it shows the last 10 years of CCP growth And so we're currently around 4644 certified clinical perfusionists in the US This is the 10-year gain versus 10-year loss of CCP's So it's a gain and loss for each of those years And if you look at 2021 we gained 239 perfusionists and we only lost 112 and this is based on certification numbers and then this slide shows the annual percent of CCP's net gain over the past 10 years And you're currently looking at almost I guess about two and a half percent from 20 to 21 about that So 2021 was 2.69 percent gain So for the perfusion program directors council the goals are to continue to liaison with the perfusion organizations And be responsive to changes within the profession and kind of lead some of the changes within the profession We're going to continue to update and improve our website to make it more user-friendly for the perfusion community and provide value-added services And then our goals are to promote safety and protection of the public as well as enhance the attainment of perfusion knowledge for the education process We're going to continue to work with CCP's educators experts to maintain and improve the education process And that's all for my talk today And I you know if there is any questions I am going to jump on live for questions if that's If that's possible Well, I just want to thank you for your time. I want to thank Texas heart for allowing me to talk And invited me to this forum. I think opportunities to promote and and provide education When any of these organizations is always really helpful to all the perfusionists, so thank you