Innovation in Resident Core Oncology Education: Switching from an Inpatient Ward Rotation to a Hybrid Model of Inpatient Consultations and Outpatient Clinics
AbstractInterest in an oncology career has decreased among internal medicine residents completing an inpatient hematology-oncology rotation. Over years, our institutional data at Indiana University School of Medicine reflected lower satisfaction with the oncology inpatient ward rotation as compared to other rotations. We hypothesized that a switch from an inpatient ward rotation to a hybrid model of inpatient consultations and outpatient clinics would improve resident satisfaction with their educational experience in oncology. Over the 6-month periods preceding and following the change in rotation format, residents were as...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - November 23, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Shortening the Frommelt Attitude Toward the Care Of the Dying Scale (FATCOD-B): a Brief 9-Item Version for Medical Education and Practice
AbstractEnd-of-life care training has gaps in helping students to develop attitudes toward caring for the dying. Valid and reliable assessment tools are essential in building effective educational programmes. The Frommelt Attitude Toward the Care Of the Dying scale (FATCOD-B) is widely used to measure the level of comfort/discomfort in caring for the dying and to test the effectiveness of end-of-life care training. However, its psychometric properties have been questioned and different proposals for refinement and shortening have been put forward. The aim of this study is to get to a definitive reduction of the FATCOD-B th...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - November 23, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Care for the Cancer Caregiver: a Qualitative Study of Facilitators and Barriers to Caregiver Integration and Support
AbstractInformal family caregivers are critically important for patient care throughout the cancer care trajectory. Family-centered care, which seeks to integrate family members as experts, is a framework that values partnerships with family members and can benefit both the physical and psychosocial health of patients. However, little standardization or system-level implementation of family-centered care models to integrate and support family caregivers have emerged in adult oncology care settings in the USA. To better understand potential barriers and facilitators to the integration and support of family caregivers in can...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - November 23, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Learning by Debate: Innovative Tool in the Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program
AbstractThe knowledge base for medicine and medical education is continuously evolving, prominently medical oncology. These quick advances expose the oncologists to the pressing need to be up-to-date in their fields and complicate the oncology education of medical students and oncology fellows. As the international societies have developed new tools to help both practitioners and trainees stay abreast of the new advances, we have incorporated the debate teaching tool in our oncology fellowship program. A survey of the participants in the debate sessions over the last three years shows that fellows considered this teaching ...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - November 23, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Piloting the Sexual and Gender Minority Cancer Curricular Advances for Research and Education (SGM Cancer CARE) Workshop: Research Training in the Service of SGM Cancer Health Equity
AbstractThe purpose of this study is to describe the context, curriculum design, and pilot evaluation of the educational program “Sexual and Gender Minority Cancer Curricular Advances for Research and Education” (SGM Cancer CARE), a workshop for early-career researchers and healthcare providers interested in gaining knowledge and skills in sexual and gender minority (SGM) cancer research and healthcare advocacy. A needs a ssessment of a sample of clinicians and researchers (n = 104) and feedback from an Advisory Board informed the curriculum design of the SGM Cancer CARE workshop. Four SGM-tailored modules, focusin...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - November 18, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Development and Evaluation of Patient Navigation Training for Rural and Appalachian Populations
AbstractThe Appalachian region of the USA includes 423 counties in 13 states positioned along the spine of the Appalachian Mountains stretching from New York to Mississippi. Approximately 42% of Appalachia is rural, and while the economy of Appalachia has diversified over the past two decades from reliance on agriculture and coal mining, 176 (41.6%) of the 423 counties are classified as economically distressed or at-risk. Patient navigation (PN) has been shown to be effective as an approach to address multiple barriers and enhance access to healthcare services, and yet there are no known PN programs focusing on the Appalac...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - November 18, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Effectiveness of Skill-Building Interventions for Informal Caregivers of Adults with Cancer: a Systematic Review
AbstractOver 19 million people worldwide were diagnosed with cancer in 2020. Informal caregivers of adults with cancer play an important role in helping their loved ones with cancer yet often receive little support in developing the necessary skills for caregiving. A systematic review of skill-building interventions for informal caregivers of adults with cancer was conducted across three electronic databases for academic articles published through February 2022. PRISMA reporting guidelines were followed throughout this review, the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool was used to assess study quality, and results were summarized in...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - November 14, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Health Literacy, Health Numeracy, and Cancer Screening Patterns in the Zuni Pueblo: Insights from and Limitations of “Standard” Questions
This study investigates how health literacy and health numeracy may be linked to cancer screening behaviors of Zuni Pueblo members using a survey exploring screening behaviors related to breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers. As part of a larger community-based cancer prevention and control project, Zuni Health Initiative staff conducted surveys from October 2020 through April 2021 of 281 participants (men ages 50 –75 and women ages 21–75) from the Zuni Pueblo. Bivariate and multivariable analyses investigated associations between health literacy/numeracy measures and cancer screening behaviors. Bivariate analyses s...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - November 5, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Narrative Approaches to Cancer Education: Striking the Right Tone
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Source: Journal of Cancer Education - November 1, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Increasing Skin Cancer Prevention in Young Adults: the Cumulative Impact of Personalized UV Photography and MC1R Genetic Testing
AbstractSkin cancer has become increasingly common among young adults; however, this population does not consistently adhere to recommended methods for preventing the disease. Interventions in college settings have relied on appearance-focused appeals and have not been able to examine the cumulative effect of multiple behavior change and skin cancer risk communication strategies. The goal of the current study was to examine the unique and combined impacts of personalized ultraviolet (UV) radiation photographs, genetic testing for skin cancer risk, and general skin cancer prevention education. Participants were randomly ass...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - October 28, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Barriers and Facilitators to Stool-Based Screening for Colorectal Cancer Among Black Louisville Residents
AbstractKnowledge of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening options remains suboptimal in Black populations, contributing to screening disparities. Guided by community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles, we partnered with five Black churches in Louisville, a region of Kentucky with high Black-white CRC screening disparities, to explore screening barriers and facilitators for CRC education and outreach. Project champions (n = 5) served as primary points of contact, developed project support within their churches, and were trained to recruit church and community members (n = 39) to participate in five semi-str...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - October 27, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Sun Safety: Knowledge and Behavior among Egyptian Farmers —a Multicomponent Intervention Study
AbstractThe purpose of study was to screen for health hazards related to sun exposure and to examine the effectiveness of a sun safety multicomponent intervention designed specifically for the Egyptian farmers. A multicomponent interventional study was conducted among 128 farmers from three villages in Zagazig district, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, from January to July 2022. It passed through three phases: phase 1: assessment of participants ’ risk of skin cancer and vision screening; phase 2: filling a semi-structured questionnaire assessing sun exposure hazards and sun safety knowledge, behavior, and barriers; and phase...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - October 25, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Impact of a Cancer Health Education Curriculum Among Milwaukee Public High School Students
This study implemented a cancer health education curriculum (CHEC) at a Milwaukee public high school with the goal of addressing cancer knowledge, fear and fatalism beliefs, and risk behaviors. The curriculum included interactive learning sessions and a service-learning final project. Five-hundred twenty-one students also completed pre- and post-surveys assessing cancer knowledge, fear and fatalism, risk behaviors, cancer-related communication, and a qualitative question asking what they hoped to gain (pre) or did gain (post) from the course. Results indicate (1) a significant improvement in cancer knowledge (p < 0...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - October 17, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
A Vocation of Palliation
AbstractI consider myself a “late bloomer,” since I never encountered the practice of palliative care during medical school in the Philippines, nor during my internal medicine residency in the USA. It was 3 years into my first job after finishing residency, working both as a hospitalist and an urgent care physician, when I came to an early morning session on end-of-life care at a large medical society meeting. That talk changed my life. I now see palliative care as being more than a “profession” or a “medical specialty.” It is my vocation, as serendipitous events called me into this line of work. For more th a...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - October 14, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Physical Activity in Oncology: To Do, Not to Do, and How to Do It? An Announcement of an Educational Program
AbstractThe National Cancer Institute of Aviano, Italy, recently launched a new program to educate the cancer population, bringing patients as close as possible to the world of physical activity during the cancer rehabilitation phase. A personalized assessment of the patient using the latest technologies allows to create a personalized electronic record of the state of physical performance to be shared among the patient, the staff at the institute (including the medical doctors and physiotherapists in charge), and the fitness instructors, who deal with of the recovery tasks. The outcome of the program can allow the develop...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - October 8, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
