Cancer survivorship training in family medicine residency programs
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Cancer survivorship training in family medicine residency programs Sarah Tucker Price 1
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Carole Berini 1 & Dean Seehusen 2 & Lisa D. Mims 1
Received: 15 August 2020 / Accepted: 1 November 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Purpose The objective of the study was to examine current family medicine residency education in cancer survivorship and barriers to cancer survivorship education in the residency curriculum. Methods Family medicine residency program directors (n = 628) were surveyed electronically between September 2019 and November 2019 through the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) annual program directory survey. Respondents (n = 250) answered questions regarding eventual cancer survivorship curriculum in their residency program, including interest and barriers to implementation. Program characteristics were assessed using univariate and multivariate analyses. Results Only 9.2% of family medicine residency program directors reported having a cancer survivorship curriculum. Sixty-nine percent of program directors reported they would implement a cancer survivorship curriculum if one was available. The most significant barrier to implementation of a cancer survivorship curriculum was insufficient time (39.6%) followed by lack of faculty expertise (26.9%). Respondents that reported lack of faculty expertise as a barrier to implementation of cancer survivorship training were more likely be report that they would be willing to implement a cancer survivorship curriculum (p < 0.01). Conclusions Despite the majority of primary care physicians providing care to cancer survivors, few family medicine residency programs have formal training in cancer survivorship care. There is interest in expanding family medicine residency training in cancer survivorship care among program directors. Implications for Cancer Survivors Gaining insight into the current educational curriculum and barriers to cancer survivorship training will lead to opportunities to improve residency training, and ultimately provide better care to cancer survivors in primary care settings. Keywords Cancer survivor . Survivorship training . Family medicine residency . Cancer survivorship program
Introduction There are currently over 16.9 million cancer survivors in the USA. This number is projected to continue to increase with improved detection and treatment modalities [1]. Consequently, there has been an increased focus on providing high-quality cancer survivorship care. However, limited information is available on graduate medical education in cancer survivorship in primary care and particularly in family medicine [2–4].
* Sarah Tucker Price [email protected] 1
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Cannon Street, Suite 405, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA
Cancer survivors are often co-managed by oncology and primary care, with cancer survivors over 5 year
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