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A Framework for Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Cancer Survivorship Curriculum for Medical Students
BACKGROUND: Cancer survivorship care is not adequately addressed in current medical school curricula. OBJECTIVES: To develop, implement, and evaluate a modular cancer survivorship curriculum that is portable to other educational settings and is designed to provide medical students with a foundation...
Autores principales: | , , , , , |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer-Verlag
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763154/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19838856 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-009-1024-7 |
Sumario: | BACKGROUND: Cancer survivorship care is not adequately addressed in current medical school curricula. OBJECTIVES: To develop, implement, and evaluate a modular cancer survivorship curriculum that is portable to other educational settings and is designed to provide medical students with a foundation of knowledge, attitudes, and skills related to care for cancer survivors. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: An expert consensus panel developed a set of learning objectives related to cancer survivorship to guide the development of educational modules, such as computer-based self-instructional modules, problem-based learning cases, videos, and clinical exercises. Course and clerkship chairs were directly involved in the development and implementation of the modules. EVALUATION: A cohort study with a historical control group demonstrated that fourth-year medical students increased their knowledge in survivorship issues and their self-reported level of comfort in care activities compared to similar students who did not receive the survivorship curriculum. CONCLUSIONS: Our framework resulted in a cancer survivorship curriculum that was implemented in a modular manner across the medical curriculum that improved learning and that is potentially portable to other educational settings. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s11606-009-1024-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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