Cancer Council Australia's Oncology Education Committee has developed an Ideal Oncology Curriculum for Medical Schools for students undertaking their first medical degree.
The Oncology Education Committee consulted extensively with the academic staff of all medical schools in Australia and New Zealand in developing an "ideal" curriculum. The new curriculum aims to identify core skills and competencies in oncology that graduating medical students should possess.
Cancer Council Australia recommends that the material in the Ideal Oncology Curriculum should appear somewhere in a medical course, not necessarily in a cancer block, to provide a core of knowledge about cancer for the medical graduate. It will assist in enabling the introduction of patient-centred skills simultaneously with a range of technical skills.
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