Professional Education Opportunities

The Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research offers multiple education opportunities for health and science professionals:

 

Clinical Oncology Career Development (K-12) Training: The National Cancer Institute-supported K-12 Training Program is geared for oncologists at the assistant professor level. It is intended to provide selected trainees a research career development experience by engaging them in all phases of designing, developing, implementing and evaluating cancer clinical trials. Novel investigator-initiated clinical trials are developed from trainees' basic research projects.

 

Cancer Genetics Career Development Program: The Division of Clinical Cancer Genetics offers an National Institutes of Health-funded program that provides comprehensive interdisciplinary training to highly qualified physicians and doctoral level nurses who want to become program leaders in cancer genetics, cancer prevention and control research. This program includes training in the genetics of cancer, cancer risk assessment, counseling and risk management, clinical cancer control and epidemiological research.