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Ensuring Quality Cancer Care Through the Oncology Workforce Sustaining Care in the 21st Century: Workshop Summary (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 65-66

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From page 65...
... increasing the education capacity and training of the health care workforce, by providing potential students with incentives such as scholarship or loan repayment programs, and by providing institutions with incentives to expand training program ­capacity; (4) continuing support for health research; and (5)
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From page 66...
... 66 ENSURING QUALITY CANCER CARE reimburse­ment mechanisms that reflect comprehensive, multidisciplinary cancer care delivery. In addition, many of the workshop participants suggested that the various professionals involved in cancer care should work with each other, to implement and achieve these proposed strategies in order to ensure the workforce is not overburdened in the future and can meet the nation's ­quality cancer care needs.
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  • various professionals
  • continuing support
  • providing institutions
  • changing federal
  • loan repayment

  • care workforce
  • providing potential
  • including providing
  • family caregiving
  • education capacity

  • workforce shortage
  • palliative care
  • repayment programs
  • expand training
  • health research

  • potential students
  • health care
  • workforce shortages
  • academic cancer
  • cancer centers

  • including research
  • training hospitals
  • wide range
  • training program
  • research institutions

  • federal policy
  • community practices


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