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TITAN 2008 updateCourses on track!Rudi Briké, TITAN coordinatorSince the beginning of 2008, 7 TITAN courses have beensuccessfully organized in several countries, using the 2008 updatedcourse material.The KOK (Germany) organized 2 courses in February and May 2008,with a total of 31 participants. Both courses received very positivefeedback from the participants and overall, the TITAN course wasjudged to be valuable and useful. One of the participants pointed outthat “ …There should be more nurses doing this training programmeas this is a very good educational project!”. Other participantsparticularly appreciated the good quality of the teachers and theuse of inter active sessions. Further courses are planned in October2008.colleagues and the multi- disciplinary team helping to increaseawareness of prevention, detection and management of thesetoxicities and to improve patient care.The UK also held a TITAN course in Leeds in June 2008, with 13participants, providing a good example of the way to organize andmanage a local meeting for nurses. This course was managedinternally at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust using thehospitals own venue and speakers. . Mrs. Kirsten Midgley (clinicaleducator) chaired and delivered most of the sessions, with theremaining sessions led by the haematology specialist nurse andmembers of the patient education group. “This course was veryuseful and I gained new knowledge, allowing me to transfer this inclinical practice” noted one of theparticipants.TITAN courses are not just takingplace in Europe but have now gone‘International’. The first TITANcourse to take place in the MiddleEast occurred in February 2008 atthe Tawam hospital in Abu Dhabiwith 40 nurses participating. TheTITAN course was very well receivedby the audience, thanks to thefact that no one less than Mr. JanFoubert chaired and presentedthe course. Amgen Middle Eastare busily planning further TITANcourses for nurses in the MiddleEast in 2008.Further TITAN courses are plannedto take place in Austria (AHOP),Belgium (SIOP), Czech Republic,Greece and Italy (AIAO).Lecturing during the IANO course in May 2008The IANO (Ireland) organized their TITAN course in May 2008 with25 participants from both community and hospital based nursescaring for cancer patients. On evaluation, participants found theday very useful and relevant to everyday clinical practice, as one ofthe participants stated: “This course is hugely beneficial to practiceon general non specialized wards.” Another participant pointed out“…all oncology/haematology nurses, no matter how experienced,should do this course. This is a very useful training day, relevant toeveryday practice and increasing the benefit for patients as a result”.Indeed, as part of the programme, participants will now develop adissemination project over the next six months and this may takedifferent forms, such as developing staff/patient education leafletsor workshops. The overall aim is to share information with nursingParticipants who have participatedin a TITAN course shouldundertake a project with the aimof disseminating their enhancedknowledge to their colleaguesor patients experiencinghaematological toxicities, within 6 months of completion of a course.We would like to inform the TITAN course organizers that there willbe once again a TITAN Dissemination project Award organized in2008. The request for nominations has been send to TITAN courseorganizers by e mail and is available on the TITAN section of theEONS website at http://www.cancerworld.org/eonsIf you would be interested in receiving more information about TITANor would like to organize or participate in a course, please contactMr. Rudi Briké at eons.secretariat@skynet.beWith special thanks to Mrs. Jacqueline Baumann, Amgen (Europe)GmbH for her kind assistance.This programme is supported by an unrestricted educational grant fromAmgen (Europe) GmbHnewsletter fall 2008 -21