Micro-learning pushed to community oncologists within 30 days of a practice change
When a trial changes the standard of care, every oncologist would receive a five-minute, case-based lesson within a month, rather than waiting for the next conference.
Community oncologists treat most patients and see many cancers; they cannot follow every subspecialty result. The proposal is a free service that, within 30 days of a practice-changing result or guideline update, delivers a short case-based module (with the plain-language summary and structured result), tracks completion, and links it to CME credit. Precedents include ASCO's education programmes and spaced-learning platforms.
- Knowledge reaches practice too slowly · Knowledge diffusion is slow: it takes years for a proven result to change what most patients receive, and no one can keep up with the literature.
- Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists · The number of people with cancer is rising faster than the workforce trained to treat them.
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