Recommendations for a Global Curriculum in Medical Oncology

The Recommendations for a Global Curriculum in Medical Oncology are a set of common guidelines with a global perspective for the clinical training required for physicians to qualify as medical oncologist.

The ESMO-ASCO Global Curriculum Task Force outlined the curriculum with the goal of defining standards in guiding the training of medical oncologists worldwide and to ensure that all patients have an equal chance of receiving treatment from well-trained physicians.

The first edition of the Curriculum was published in 2004 and distributed worldwide to universities, training hospitals, and medical oncology societies. It has been published in 11 different languages and used as a model for development of the speciality of medical oncology in several countries around the world.

The chapters included in the second, 2010 edition of the Curriculum are based on contributions from esteemed experts around the world and shaped to a significant degree by the rapid advances in the management of patients with malignant diseases in the short time since the first edition was produced.

Here you can find translations of the updated Curriculum in different languages:

The ESMO/ASCO Global Core Curriculum for Training in Medical Oncology Log Book is modeled in 2009 after the original Curriculum publication. The purpose of the Log Book is to keep a record of oncology trainees’ educational program, their progress and provide supervisors a tool in which to assess performance.

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Here you can find Curriculum translations in different languages that have been produced on the basis of the Curriculum published in 2004.
If you are interested to translate the latest Curriculum version at your native language, please contact us (Select ‘Education & Research') or international@asco.org

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