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05/04/2012
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Description of Resource
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The transition from active cancer treatment to post-treatment care is critical to patient-centered medical-home based care, yet inclusion of cancer survivorship content in the education and training of primary care physicians such as family physicians is lacking.
With the increasing survival of cancer patients, primary care residents, in particular those in family medicine, must be familiar with the late effects of cancer treatment and be able to offer appropriately tailored survivorship care in partnership with cancer care specialists.
To address these paired public health and educational needs an interdisciplinary group at our institution is in the process of developing, implementing, and evaluating an interactive, online cancer survivorship curriculum for primary care residents. Our initial teaching modules address survivorship care regarding breast and colorectal cancer.
In the development phase of our survivorship curriculum we conducted an online needs assessment survey of and related focus group interview with the family medicine residents at our institution. Residents indicated that they rarely utilized survivorship care plans or explicitly negotiated a program of shared patient care with the patient's cancer specialists. Less than satisfactory elements of cancer survivorship education include sexual dysfunction, genetic susceptibility testing, side effects of surgical therapy, caregiver stress/burnout, and community support services.
During the implementation of our online teaching tutorials we plan to measure the impact of these teaching modules on the residents' utilization of survivorship care plans and partnership with cancer specialists. Incorporation of survivorship care plans into existing electronic health records at our institution is a future goal and application of our educational reform which will allow us to measure and analyze adherence to cancer survivorship guidelines; and, in time, patient-centered outcomes such as satisfaction with survivorship care, cancer recurrence, and new primary cancers.
Cancer survivorship care is common in family medicine residency care and opportunities exist to improve survivorship education, care, and collaboration.
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STFM Annual Spring Conference |
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2012 (Seattle, WA) |
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Faculty Development |
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Patient-centered Medical Home |
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STFM CA Survivorship PLewis.pptx
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