. "5 Providers of Survivorship Care: Their Supply and Education and Training." From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2005.
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From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition
BOX 5-1 Essential Content of Survivorship Training for Health Care Providers
Prevention of secondary cancers
General discussion of survivorship
Long-term complications/sequelae of treatment
Trends and statistics in health care access
Health care systems/quality assurance/models of care
Rehabilitation services
Quality-of-life issues in survivorship
Detection of recurrent and secondary cancers
Pain management
Palliative care/end-of-life care
Short-term complications
Treatment of recurrent cancer
SOURCE: Ferrell et al. (2003).
2005).3 An educational opportunity available to a cross-section of health professionals is a cancer survivorship biennial conference sponsored by NCI’s Office of Cancer Survivorship and the American Cancer Society (ACS) (NCI and ACS, 2002, 2004).
Physicians
The status of undergraduate and graduate medical education is described in this section, followed by some examples of opportunities for continuing medical education on survivorship for practicing physicians.4 Given their educational potential, the availability of clinical practice guidelines related to cancer survivorship is included in this discussion.
3
An older, now out-of-date training program for health professionals, The Cancer Journey: Issues for Survivors, was developed by NCI in collaboration with the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and Ortho Biotech, Inc. It was designed to (1) raise awareness of cancer survivorship; (2) demonstrate how to provide effective support, accurate information, and useful referrals; and (3) promote the empowerment of survivors and their families to work effectively with their health care team, employers, and others concerning issues related to their cancer history (NCI, 1998).
4
The status of survivorship-related educational opportunities for psychiatrists are described later in the chapter in the section on psychosocial and mental health providers.
