ENHANCING CANCER EDUCATION--MEDICAL AND NURSING STUDENTS

描述：（申请人的描述）本申请的目的是 教育项目的目的是改善对有危险的人的照顾， 通过提高初级保健提供者的技能， 这将通过提供创新的教育来实现。 课程，使医学和研究生护理学生， 参与合并和单独的学习经验。的 学习经验将作为必修课程的一部分提供 作为选修课程，将涉及课堂和临床 经验在制定提案之前，需要三个部分 进行了评估，为干预提供了依据。 这一需求评估包括对现有课程的分析 与肿瘤学相关，并进行客观肿瘤学检查， 这两所大学，以及全国学习目标的调查 与姑息治疗有关。 该项目将有四个主要 重点：1）增加癌症预防和检测的内容， 一年级和二年级医学生的物理诊断课程 以及护理研究生的两个核心评估课程; 2)为所有教师的教学提供教师增强活动 在这些课程中，这些活动包括讲习班和个人 3）支持医学和护理研究生， 参加两个联合夏季选修课程，旨在提高技能 初级保健从业人员在癌症预防/检测领域的 和癌症治疗期间的症状管理;和4）教第三 一年医学生如何管理癌症晚期症状 患者以及如何与其他卫生专业人员合作， 在当地的临终关怀机构提供教学和临床经验， 护士老师项目评估将包括两个项目 活动和成果。该项目的每一个方面都将 评估和创新的成功将通过使用 一个以前试点的肿瘤学知识评估测试。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Description) The purpose of this proposed educational project is to improve the care of persons at risk for or diagnosed with cancer by improving the skills of primary care providers. This will be accomplished by providing an innovative educational curriculum that allows medical and graduate nursing students to participate in both combined and separate learning experiences. The learning experiences will be provided as part of the required curriculum and as elective coursework and will involve both classroom and clinical experiences. Prior to development of the proposal a three part needs assessment was conducted that provided the basis for the intervention. This needs assessment included an analysis of the current curricula related to oncology and administration of an objective oncology test in both colleges, as well as a national survey of learning objectives related to palliative care. The proposed project will have four main thrusts: 1) to increase cancer prevention and detection content in the Physical Diagnosis courses for first and second year medical students and in the two core assessment courses for graduate nursing students; 2) to provide faculty enhancement activities for faculty teaching in all of these courses, such activities to include workshops and individual consultation; 3) to support medical and graduate nursing students to take two joint summer elective courses designed to increase the skills of primary care practitioners in the areas of cancer prevention/detection and symptom management during cancer treatment; and 4) to teach third year medical students how to manage symptoms in terminally ill cancer patients and how to collaborate with other health professionals by providing didactic and clinical experiences at a local hospice with nurse-preceptors. Project evaluation will include both project activities and outcomes. Each individual aspect of the project will be evaluated and the success of the innovation will be measured by use of a previously piloted Oncology Knowledge Assessment Test.