Summary
Worldwide undergraduate cancer medicine is taught in a non-unanimous manner. There
are frequent overlaps, omissions and discrepancies in the curricula of different medical
schools concerning oncology teaching. Various attempts for possible changes and improvements
have been made. Several extra-curriculum teaching programmes have been developed in
academic European settings in collaboration with other scientific bodies.
In this paper, we are analyzing the educational results from 115 medical students
– mostly Europeans – who participated in three Oncology Summer Courses (2004, 2005,
2006) organized by European School of Oncology in collaboration with the University
of Ioannina.
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: April 13, 2007
Accepted:
February 15,
2007
Received:
February 15,
2007
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© 2007 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
