CANCER EDUCATION PROGRAM

本次癌症教育的总体目标和长远目标 是执业医生的产物，他们将为 在癌症预防和早期诊断和管理方面， 作为多学科团队的一部分，从而提高 照顾癌症患者。这是一个多学科的癌症教育。 医学本科生计划和继续教育 为其他卫生专业人员举办的活动。多种多样的教学方法 使用了各种技术。计划在授权期内的具体目标 申请的项目包括： 1)制定持续的课程评估和纵向计划 对扩展认知数据和行为变化的评估 医学本科生。 2)丰富本科生肿瘤学暑期实习经验 并开发新的肿瘤学选修课。 3)完善和进一步加强全民肿瘤学基础核心课程 医学本科生。 4)增加流行病学、营养性和社会性的含量 向受训人员提供关于癌症风险、癌症预防和 治疗。 5)利用癌症筛查-乳房自我检查(BSE)-计划 对学生和有耐心的公众进行教育。 6)易于扩充癌症自学教材 向学生提供，并增加学生接触访问肿瘤学家的机会。 7)为深入调查具体问题提供机会 通过少数民族生物医学(MBS)临床与癌症相关 研究计划。 8)为医科本科生提供活动， 向他们介绍肿瘤学的主要信息数据库。 9)提高医学界对这项癌症教育计划的认识 中心和当地社区。

The overall objective and long term goal of this cancer education program is the production of practicing physicians who will provide optimal care to patients in terms of cancer prevention and early diagnosis and management, as part of a multidisciplinary team, thus improving the overall quality of care of patients with cancer. It is a multidisciplinary cancer education program for undergraduate medical students and continuing educational activities for other health professionals. A variety of pedagogical techniques are used. The specific aims of the program in the grant period applied for are: 1) To develop an ongoing program of curriculum evaluation and longitudinal assessment of expanded cognitive data and behavioral change in undergraduate medical students. 2) To enrichen summer experiences in oncology for undergraduate medical students and develop new oncology electives. 3) To refine and further strengthen a core basic oncology course for all undergraduate medical students. 4) To increase the content of epidemiological, nutritional and psychosocial data provided trainees with regard to cancer risk, cancer prevention and treatment. 5) To utilize a cancer screening - Breast Self-Examination (BSE) - program for the education of students and the patient public. 6) To expand the available self-teaching materials in cancer readily available to students and increase student exposure to visiting oncologists. 7) To provide opportunities for in-depth investigation of specific problems related to cancer through the Minority Biomedical Science (MBS) clinical research program. 8) To provide activities for undergraduate medical students that will introduce them to major informational data bases in oncology. 9) To increase awareness of this cancer education program in the medical center and the local community.