Resident-Reported Impact of a Novel Oncology Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents.

ABSTRACT: The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education mandates that all internal medicine residents gain exposure to internal medicine subspecialties including hematology and oncology. While many residents meet this criterion through inpatient oncology rotations, the current structure of many inpatient oncology rotations leaves little opportunity for formal education. We therefore designed a novel oncology curriculum consisting of one-page oncology teaching sheets to increase the number, breadth, and quality of formal teaching sessions on our resident inpatient oncology services. In order to evaluate the curriculum, we conducted pre- and post-intervention surveys of residents. From these surveys, we found that 72.2% of residents used the teaching sheets on their inpatient oncology rotati

SUBMITTER: Tsai FD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8417651 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature