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Medical oncology future plan of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology: challenges and future needs of the Spanish oncologists

PURPOSE: The SEOM Future Plan is aimed at identifying the main challenges, trends and needs of the medical oncology speciality over the next years, including potential oncologist workforce shortages, and proposing recommendations to overcome them. METHODS: The estimations of the required medical onc...

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Autores principales: Rivera, F., Andres, R., Felip, E., Garcia-Campelo, R., Lianes, P., Llombart, A., Piera, J. M., Puente, J., Rodriguez, C. A., Vera, R., Virizuela, J. A., Martin, M., Garrido, P.
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Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5346109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28005259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12094-016-1595-9
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author Rivera, F.
Andres, R.
Felip, E.
Garcia-Campelo, R.
Lianes, P.
Llombart, A.
Piera, J. M.
Puente, J.
Rodriguez, C. A.
Vera, R.
Virizuela, J. A.
Martin, M.
Garrido, P.
author_facet Rivera, F.
Andres, R.
Felip, E.
Garcia-Campelo, R.
Lianes, P.
Llombart, A.
Piera, J. M.
Puente, J.
Rodriguez, C. A.
Vera, R.
Virizuela, J. A.
Martin, M.
Garrido, P.
author_sort Rivera, F.
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description PURPOSE: The SEOM Future Plan is aimed at identifying the main challenges, trends and needs of the medical oncology speciality over the next years, including potential oncologist workforce shortages, and proposing recommendations to overcome them. METHODS: The estimations of the required medical oncologists workforce are based on an updated Medical Oncologist Register in Spain, Medical Oncology Departments activity data, dedication times and projected cancer incidence. Challenges, needs and future recommendations were drawn from an opinion survey and an advisory board. RESULTS: A shortage of 211 FTE medical oncologist specialists has been established. To maintain an optimal ratio of 158 new cases/FTE, medical oncology workforce should reach 1881 FTE by 2035. CONCLUSIONS: Main recommendations to face the growing demand and complexity of oncology services include a yearly growth of 2.5% of medical oncologist’s workforce until 2035, and development and application of more accurate quality indicators for cancer care and health outcomes measure.
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spelling pubmed-53461092017-03-22 Medical oncology future plan of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology: challenges and future needs of the Spanish oncologists Rivera, F. Andres, R. Felip, E. Garcia-Campelo, R. Lianes, P. Llombart, A. Piera, J. M. Puente, J. Rodriguez, C. A. Vera, R. Virizuela, J. A. Martin, M. Garrido, P. Clin Transl Oncol Research Article PURPOSE: The SEOM Future Plan is aimed at identifying the main challenges, trends and needs of the medical oncology speciality over the next years, including potential oncologist workforce shortages, and proposing recommendations to overcome them. METHODS: The estimations of the required medical oncologists workforce are based on an updated Medical Oncologist Register in Spain, Medical Oncology Departments activity data, dedication times and projected cancer incidence. Challenges, needs and future recommendations were drawn from an opinion survey and an advisory board. RESULTS: A shortage of 211 FTE medical oncologist specialists has been established. To maintain an optimal ratio of 158 new cases/FTE, medical oncology workforce should reach 1881 FTE by 2035. CONCLUSIONS: Main recommendations to face the growing demand and complexity of oncology services include a yearly growth of 2.5% of medical oncologist’s workforce until 2035, and development and application of more accurate quality indicators for cancer care and health outcomes measure. Springer International Publishing 2016-12-22 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5346109/ /pubmed/28005259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12094-016-1595-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Rivera, F.
Andres, R.
Felip, E.
Garcia-Campelo, R.
Lianes, P.
Llombart, A.
Piera, J. M.
Puente, J.
Rodriguez, C. A.
Vera, R.
Virizuela, J. A.
Martin, M.
Garrido, P.
Medical oncology future plan of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology: challenges and future needs of the Spanish oncologists
title Medical oncology future plan of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology: challenges and future needs of the Spanish oncologists
title_full Medical oncology future plan of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology: challenges and future needs of the Spanish oncologists
title_fullStr Medical oncology future plan of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology: challenges and future needs of the Spanish oncologists
title_full_unstemmed Medical oncology future plan of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology: challenges and future needs of the Spanish oncologists
title_short Medical oncology future plan of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology: challenges and future needs of the Spanish oncologists
title_sort medical oncology future plan of the spanish society of medical oncology: challenges and future needs of the spanish oncologists
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5346109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28005259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12094-016-1595-9
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