Educating physician assistants as agents in cancer control: issues and opportunities

Lifestyle factors (eg, smoking, diet) and compliance with screening recommendations play a role in cancer risk, and emerging technologies (eg, new vaccines, genetic testing) hold promise for improved risk management. However, optimal outcomes from cancer control efforts require better preparation of...

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Published in:Journal of cancer education 2007-12, Vol.22 (4), p.227-232
Main Authors: Smith, Quentin W, Fasser, Carl E, Spence, Laurel R, McLaughlin, Robert J, Holcomb, J David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Standards
Accreditation
Accreditation (Institutions)
Allied Health Occupations Education
Attitude to Health
Attrition (Research Studies)
Behavior
Behavior Change
Cancer
Change Strategies
Counseling
Curricula
Curriculum
Death
Decision making
Disease prevention
Economic Impact
Education
Educational Measurement
Educational Status
Ethnic Groups
Family Practice (Medicine)
Gynecology
Health Behavior
Health care expenditures
Health Personnel
Health Promotion
Health services
Humans
Internal Medicine
Life Style
Lifestyles
Medical personnel
Medical Services
Medicine
Mortality
Neoplasms - prevention & control
Opportunities
Patient Compliance
Patients
Physician assistants
Physician Assistants - education
Physicians
Primary care
Primary Health Care
Professional Education
Professional Role
Professional Training
Professionals
Program Development
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Vaccines
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Summary:Lifestyle factors (eg, smoking, diet) and compliance with screening recommendations play a role in cancer risk, and emerging technologies (eg, new vaccines, genetic testing) hold promise for improved risk management. However, optimal outcomes from cancer control efforts require better preparation of health professionals in risk assessment, risk communication, and implementing health behavioral change strategies that are vitally important to cancer control. Although physician assistants (PAs) are substantively engaged in cancer-related service delivery in primary care settings, few models exist to facilitate integration of cancer control learning experiences into the curricula used in intense, fast-paced, 24- to 30-month PA training programs.
ISSN:0885-8195
1543-0154
DOI:10.1007/BF03174121