Advanced Hematology-Oncology Elective
ME 516M.21
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Overview of the Elective: Oncology is a special discipline within medicine, blending personal patient relationships with groundbreaking science and collaborative care. For future oncologists and non-oncologists alike, an oncology rotation offers the chance to build close patient relationships, improve communication skills, apply science to the bedside, and witness interprofessional care at its best.
Dana Farber offers several different Hematology-Oncology electives for advanced clerkship students. This specific elective, the Advanced Oncology Elective, allows students to embed themselves within 1-2 different outpatient disease centers within the Department of Medical Oncology at Dana Farber in order to gain a deeper understanding of the care that the disease center provides. Students will choose from a list of 20 different disease centers prior to the start of the rotation including: breast oncology, cancer diagnostics service, cancer genetics and prevention, cutaneous cancer, center for early detection and interception, gastrointestinal oncology, genitourinary oncology, gynecologic oncology, head and neck cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, bone marrow transplant, classical hematology, melanoma, neuro-oncology, sarcoma, thoracic oncology, survivorship, cancer therapeutic innovation, and integrative medicine.
By centering the elective around only 1-2 disease centers, students will be able to gain familiarity with the pathophysiology and treatment of these diseases, will “live” the life of an attending physician in the disease group, and will build close faculty relationships. They will also be able to form connections with patients and make a substantial impact in a patient’s care.
Didactic Structure: During the elective, students will meet with the elective director 1 time per week. These meetings will include an introduction to the elective, discuss of the student experience to date, and a review of feedback for the student. Students will also participate in disease-group specific case conferences and tumor boards and twice weekly hematology-oncology teaching sessions that are held for all advanced clerkship students at Dana Farber. These teaching sessions for advanced elective students will focus on foundational aspects of oncology care as well career trajectories within oncology fields.
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