Editing Perfusionist (section)

===Canada===
In [[Canada]], there are three training programs: [[Burnaby]] in [[Western Canada]], [[Toronto]] and [[Montreal]] in [[Eastern Canada]]. [[British Columbia Institute of Technology]] in Burnaby offers an advanced specialty certificate in cardiovascular perfusion to graduates of its two-year program. Applicants must be certified respiratory therapists, critical care nurses, or cardiac professionals with two years or more of current experience in cardiac critical care. Applicants to the [[The Michener Institute|Michener Institute]] program in Toronto must have a [[bachelor's degree]] at minimum, with or without respiratory therapy, nursing or other clinical certification. The master's program is two years. The perfusion program of the [[Université de Montréal]] is a three-year bachelor's degree of 90 credits in biomedical science of which 27 credits are specific to clinical perfusion and in addition a diplôme d’études supérieurs spécialisées (DESS) of 30 credits in clinical perfusion of one-year at the master level.