Education Competencies for Integrative Oncology-Results of a Systematic Review and an International and Interprofessional Consensus Procedure.
- Witt CM Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 6, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland. claudia.witt@uzh.ch.
- Balneaves LG College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Carlson LE Department of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
- Cohen M Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Deng G Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Fouladbakhsh JM Oakland University, School of Nursing, Rochester, MI, USA.
- Kinney AY Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Rutgers, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
- Mehta A Memorial Health Care System, FL, Hollywood, USA.
- Mailman J NorCal CarciNET Community, Oakland, CA, USA.
- Pole L Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Institute for Integrative Oncology Navigation, Washington, DC, USA.
- Rogge AA Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 13353, Berlin, Germany.
- O'Toole C Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Washington, DC, USA.
- Zick SM Department of Family Medicine and Nutritional Sciences Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
- Helmer SM Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 13353, Berlin, Germany.
- 2020-08-13
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- Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education. - 2020
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Integrative oncology is a burgeoning field and typically provided by a multiprofessional team. To ensure cancer patients receive effective, appropriate, and safe care, health professionals providing integrative cancer care should have a certain set of competencies. The aim of this project was to define core competencies for different health professions involved in integrative oncology. The project consisted of two phases. A systematic literature review on published competencies was performed, and the results informed an international and interprofessional consensus procedure. The second phase consisted of three rounds of consensus procedure and included 28 experts representing 7 different professions (medical doctors, psychologists, nurses, naturopathic doctors, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, yoga practitioners, patient navigators) as well as patient advocates, public health experts, and members of the Society for Integrative Oncology. A total of 40 integrative medicine competencies were identified in the literature review. These were further complemented by 18 core oncology competencies. The final round of the consensus procedure yielded 37 core competencies in the following categories: knowledge (n = 11), skills (n = 17), and abilities (n = 9). There was an agreement that these competencies are relevant for all participating professions. The integrative oncology core competencies combine both fundamental oncology knowledge and integrative medicine competencies that are necessary to provide effective and safe integrative oncology care for cancer patients. They can be used as a starting point for developing profession-specific learning objectives and to establish integrative oncology education and training programs to meet the needs of cancer patients and health professionals.
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- DOI 10.1007/s13187-020-01829-8
- PMID 32783117
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- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/258808
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