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Journal of Cancer Education
Published in: Journal of Cancer Education 3/2011

01-09-2011

Teaching Oncology to Medical Students is a Must: The Egyptian NCI Step on the Road

Authors: Rabab Gaafar, Emad Shash, Alaa El-Haddad, Salah Abdel Hady

Published in: Journal of Cancer Education | Issue 3/2011

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Pavlidis et al. [1] recently published their experience in teaching oncology to undergraduate medical students over a 6-year-period which involved a 5-day intense summer course that was organized by the European School of Oncology. They highlighted that a limited perception of oncology as a separate entity in the medical school curriculum is associated with a poorer understanding of various aspects of cancer management [1, 2]. …
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Metadata
Title
Teaching Oncology to Medical Students is a Must: The Egyptian NCI Step on the Road
Authors
Rabab Gaafar
Emad Shash
Alaa El-Haddad
Salah Abdel Hady
Publication date
01-09-2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of Cancer Education / Issue 3/2011
Print ISSN: 0885-8195
Electronic ISSN: 1543-0154
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-011-0214-2

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