Duke Cancer Care Experience: a longitudinal, multidisciplinary oncology curriculum for medical students
Anagh Kulkarni, Zachary Creech, Khalid Tejan-Sie, Myles Nickolich, Sandro Pinheiro de Oliveira, Matthew Labriola · 2026
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Anagh Kulkarni and co-authors describe Duke's Cancer Care Experience, a cancer course for first-year medical students, in this 2026 report. Cancer is growing more common in the United States, and a shortage of cancer doctors is expected. Yet medical schools often teach little oncology early on. Duke built this elective to give new students a broad, humane grounding in cancer care.
Students took workshops, lectures, and case sessions, and shadowed doctors over time. Surveys before and after the course ran in 2023 and 2024. Comfort with all fifteen cancer topics rose after the course in both years. In a 2025 follow-up, most students said the course shaped their career thinking. Nearly all would recommend it. The authors present the model as one other schools could copy.
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| CREATOR | Anagh Kulkarni, Zachary Creech, Khalid Tejan-Sie, Myles Nickolich, Sandro Pinheiro de Oliveira, Matthew Labriola |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |