CANCER EDUCATION PROGRAM

癌症教育计划的总体目标和长期目标 是生产执业医师谁将提供最佳的照顾， 在癌症预防、早期诊断和管理方面， 作为多学科团队的一部分，从而提高整体质量 癌症患者的护理。 这是一个多学科的癌症教育 本科医学生和继续教育计划 其他卫生专业人员的活动。 各种教学 技术被使用。 项目在资助期内的具体目标 申请的有： 1)制定一个持续的课程评估和纵向计划， 评估扩展的认知数据和行为变化， 医学本科生 2)丰富医学本科生夏季肿瘤学经验 学生和开发新的肿瘤学选修课。 3)完善和进一步加强所有人的核心基础肿瘤学课程 医学本科生 4)增加流行病学、营养和心理社会教育的内容， 向受训人员提供的关于癌症风险、癌症预防和 治疗 5)利用癌症筛查-乳房自我检查（BSE）计划 对学生和病人的教育。 6)扩展现有的癌症自学教材 提供给学生，并增加学生接触访问肿瘤学家。 7)为深入调查具体问题提供机会 通过少数生物医学科学（MBS）临床与癌症相关 研究计划。 8)为本科医学生提供活动， 将它们引入肿瘤学的主要信息数据库。 9)为了提高医疗机构对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.