OVERVIEW

Cancer Survivorship E-learning Series for Primary Care Providers is organized by George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences (GWSMHS).

Course opens: 04/15/2020
Course expires: 12/31/2025

Description:
Primary care providers play a critical role in providing follow-up care for cancer survivors, including dealing with many of the physical, psychological, practical, informational and spiritual challenges after the completion of cancer treatment.

Clinicians can learn about caring for survivors of adult-onset cancers through a series of ten enduring online educational modules:

  • Module 1: The Current State of Survivorship Care and the Role of Primary Care Providers
  • Module 2: Late Effects of Cancer and its Treatments: Managing Comorbidities and Coordinating with Specialty Providers
  • Module 3: Late Effects of Cancer and its Treatments: Meeting the Psychosocial Health Care Needs of Survivors
  • Module 4: The Importance of Prevention in Cancer Survivorship: Empowering Survivors to Live Well
  • Module 5: A Team Approach: Survivorship Care Coordination
  • Module 5 Companion: Advancing Patient-Centered Cancer Survivorship Care
  • Module 6: Cancer Recovery and Rehabilitation 
  • Module 7: Spotlight on Prostate Cancer Survivorship: Clinical Follow-Up Care Guideline for Primary Care Providers 
  • Module 8: Spotlight on Colorectal Cancer Survivorship: Clinical Follow-Up Care Guideline for Primary Care Providers
  • Module 9: Spotlight on Breast Cancer Survivorship: Clinical Follow-Up Care Guideline for Primary Care Providers
  • Module 10: Spotlight on Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship: Clinical Follow-Up Care Guideline for Primary Care Providers
Credits

 Accreditation:
Continuing education credits (CEs) are available at no cost to physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses and Certified Health Education Specialists. Each module corresponds to 1 credit hour. In order to receive CEs, participants MUST complete at least one module (for 1 credit hour), including all module activities. Participants will be provided instructions to claim credit and print certificates upon module completion.

Certified Health Education Specialists CE Contact Hours
Sponsored by the GW Cancer Center, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) to receive up to 10.0 Category I continuing education contact hours.

  • 1 Credit Hour
  • 10 C.E. contact hours
  • SPECIALITIES

    OncologyPrimary Care

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