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oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:1058...
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Husain, Marium Faisal, Muhammad Salman Quiroga, Dionisia Sigmund, Audrey M Otterson, Gregory Walker, Alison Obeng-Gyasi, Samilia Christian, BethLangue
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BioMed Central
Category
BMC Medical Education
Year
2023
listing date
12/11/2023
Keywords
education health research noted cancer fellows healthcare fellowship disparitiesAbstract
BACKGROUND: After George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called systemic racism a public health crisis.
This health crisis is connected to the already-documented racial and socioeconomic disparities in cancer care.
Ensuring hematologists and oncologists are aware of these disparities through their medical education can help to address these disparities.
METHODS: The authors implemented a healthcare disparities-focused curriculum in a Hematology/Oncology fellowship program during the 2020–2021 academic year at The Ohio State University Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program.
They implemented a pre- and post- survey to evaluate the efficacy of the program.
RESULTS: Fifteen fellows completed the pre-curriculum survey and 14 completed the post-survey.
Before the curriculum, 12 fellows (80%) noted a “Fair” or “Good” understanding of healthcare disparities, and 6 (40%) had a “Fair” understanding of disparities in clinical trials and access to novel therapies.
Fourteen fellows (93.3%) had not previously participated in a research project focused on identifying or overcoming healthcare disparities.
After the curriculum, 12 (85%) fellows strongly agreed or agreed that the information presented in the curriculum was useful for training as a hematologist/oncologist.
Twelve fellows (85%) noted “Agree” or “Strongly Agree” that the information presented was relevant to their practice.
Eleven fellows (92%) noted that they plan to incorporate healthcare disparities into a future research or clinical project.
The majority of fellows, 11 (79%) recommended that the fellowship program continue to have a formal health disparities curriculum in the future.
DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION: There is utility in incorporating cancer disparities education into a hematology/oncology academic curriculum.
We recommend further analysis of such curricula to improve fellowship education and patient outcomes with these interventions.
Husain, Marium,Faisal, Muhammad Salman,Quiroga, Dionisia,Sigmund, Audrey M,Otterson, Gregory,Walker, Alison,Obeng-Gyasi, Samilia,Christian, Beth, 2023, A cancer disparities curriculum in a hematology/oncology fellowship program, BioMed Central
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