title: Preparedness for caring of cancer survivors: a multi-institutional study of medical students and oncology fellows.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Despite recent advances in cancer survivorship knowledge and care, most medical schools lack a comprehensive survivorship curriculum, potentially leaving students ill-prepared for caring of survivors.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 211 students and 22 oncology fellows in 3 institutions completed a questionnaire assessing knowledge and experience in survivorship care.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Medical students and oncology fellows lack knowledge in key survivorship issues. Students were exposed to cancer survivors frequently in medical school but only half received instruction or practiced critical components of survivorship care.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Improvement of both undergraduate and postgraduate training in survivorship care is urgently warranted.
authors.affiliation: David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. bas@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uijtdehaage
authors.forename: Karen E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Hauer
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stuber
authors.forename: Vay Liang
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Go
authors.forename: Shobita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajagopalan
authors.forename: Luann
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wilkerson
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors; D014481:United States