ESMO / ASCO Recommendations for a Global Curriculum in Medical Oncology Edition 2016

Christian Dittrich¹, Michael Kosty², Svetlana Jezdic³, Doug Pyle⁴, Rossana Berardi⁵, Jonas Bergh⁶, Nagi El-Saghir⁷, Jean-Pierre Lotz⁸, Pia Österlund⁹, Nicholas Pavlidis¹⁰, Gunta Purkalne¹¹, Ahmad Awada¹², Susana Banerjee¹³, Smita Bhatia¹⁴, Jan Bogaerts¹⁵, Jan Buckner¹⁶, Fatima Cardoso¹⁷, Paolo Casali¹⁸, Edward Chu¹⁹, Julia Lee Close²⁰, Bertrand Coiffier²¹, Roisin Connolly²², Sarah Coupland²³, Luigi De Petris²⁴, Maria De Santis²⁵, Elisabeth G E de Vries²⁶, Don S Dizon²⁷, Jennifer Duff²⁸, Linda R Duska²⁹, Alexandru Eniu³⁰, Marc Ernstoff³¹, Enriqueta Felip³², Martin F Fey³³, Jill Gilbert³⁴, Nicolas Girard³⁵, Andor W J M Glaudemans³⁶, Priya K Gopalan³⁷, Axel Grothey³⁸, Stephen M Hahn³⁹, Diana Hanna⁴⁰, Christian Herold⁴¹, Jørn Herrstedt⁴², Krisztian Homicsko⁴³, Dennie V Jones Jr⁴⁴, Lorenz Jost⁴⁵, Ulrich Keilholz⁴⁶, Saad Khan⁴⁷, Alexander Kiss⁴⁸, Claus-Henning Köhne⁴⁹, Rainer Kunstfeld⁵⁰, Heinz-Josef Lenz⁵¹, Stuart Lichtman⁵², Lisa Licitra⁵³, Thomas Lion⁵⁴, Saskia Litière¹⁵, Lifang Liu⁵⁵, Patrick J Loehrer⁵⁶, Merry Jennifer Markham⁵⁷, Ben Markman⁵⁸, Marius Mayerhoefer⁵⁹, Johannes G Meran⁶⁰, Olivier Michielin⁶¹, Elizabeth Charlotte Moser⁶², Giannis Mountzios⁶³, Timothy Moynihan⁶⁴, Torsten Nielsen⁶⁵, Yuichiro Ohe⁶⁶, Kjell Öberg⁶⁷, Antonio Palumbo⁶⁸, Fedro Alessandro Peccatori⁶⁹, Michael Pfeilstöcker⁷⁰, Chandrajit Raut⁷¹, Scot C Remick⁷², Mark Robson⁷³, Piotr Rutkowski⁷⁴, Roberto Salgado⁷⁵, Lidia Schapira⁷⁶, Eva Schernhammer⁷⁷, Martin Schlumberger⁷⁸, Hans-Joachim Schmoll⁷⁹, Lowell Schnipper⁸⁰, Cristiana Sessa⁸¹, Charles L Shapiro⁸², Julie Steele⁸³, Cora N Sternberg⁸⁴, Friedrich Stiefel⁸⁵, Florian Strasser⁸⁶, Roger Stupp⁸⁷, Richard Sullivan⁸⁸, Josep Tabernero³², Luzia Travado⁸⁹, Marcel Verheij⁹⁰, Emile Voest⁹¹, Everett Vokes⁹², Jamie Von Roenn⁹³, Jeffrey S Weber⁹⁴, Hans Wildiers⁹⁵, Yosef Yarden⁹⁵

Affiliations

¹ 3rd Medical Department , Centre for Oncology and Haematology, Kaiser Franz Josef-Spital , Vienna , Austria.
² Division of Hematology/Oncology , Scripps Green Cancer Center, Scripps Clinic , La Jolla, California , USA.
³ European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) , Lugano , Switzerland.
⁴ American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) , Alexandria, Virginia , USA.
⁵ Department of Medical Oncology , Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ospedali Riuniti Ancona , Ancona , Italy.
⁶ The Strategic Research Programme in Cancer, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital , Stockholm , Sweden.
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine , NK Basile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center , Beirut , Lebanon.
⁸ Department of Medical Oncology and Cellular Therapy, Medical Oncology Department , Tenon Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris , Paris , France.
⁹ Department of Oncology , HUCH Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki , Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁰ Department of Medical Oncology , University of Ioannina , Ioannina , Greece.
¹¹ Clinic of Oncology , Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital , Riga , Latvia.
¹² Medical Oncology Clinic , Jules Bordet Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles , Brussels , Belgium.
¹³ The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust , London , UK.
¹⁴ Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics , Institute of Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center , Birmingham, Alabama , USA.
¹⁵ The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) , Brussels , Belgium.
¹⁶ Department of Oncology , Cancer Practice-Mayo Clinic Cancer Center , Rochester, Minnesota , USA.
¹⁷ Breast Unit , Champalimaud Clinical Center , Lisbon , Portugal.
¹⁸ Medical Oncology Unit 2 (Adult Mesenchymal Tumours and Rare Cancers) , Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori , Milan , Italy.
¹⁹ University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , USA.
²⁰ UF Department of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology, UF Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program, Gainesville, Florida, USA; Medical Service, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
²¹ Department of Hematology , University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud , Lyon , France.
²² Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program , Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland , USA.
²³ Pathology, Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine , University of Liverpool , Liverpool , UK.
²⁴ Department of Oncology , Radiumhemmet, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital , Stockholm , Sweden.
²⁵ University of Warwick, Cancer Research Centre , Coventry , UK.
²⁶ Department of Medical Oncology , University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen , Groningen , The Netherlands.
²⁷ The Oncology Sexual Health Clinic, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts , USA.
²⁸ Department of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida , USA.
²⁹ Division of Gynecologic Oncology , University of Virginia School of Medicine , Charlottesville, Virginia , USA.
³⁰ Department of Breast Tumors , Cancer Institute "Ion Chiricuta" , Cluj-Napoca , Romania.
³¹ Department of Medicine , Roswell Park Cancer Institute , Buffalo, New York , USA.
³² Medical Oncology Department , Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) , Barcelona , Spain.
³³ Inselspital and University Hospital of Bern , Bern , Switzerland.
³⁴ Vanderbilt University School of Medicine , Nashville, Tennessee , USA.
³⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Thoracic Oncology , Institute of Oncology, Hospices Civils de Lyon , Lyon , France.
³⁶ Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging , University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen , Groningen , The Netherlands.
³⁷ Department of Medicine , University of Florida and Section of Medicine, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center , Gainesville, Florida , USA.
³⁸ Mayo Clinic Rochester , Rochester, Minnesota , USA.
³⁹ Division of Radiation Oncology , The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center , Houston, Texas , USA.
⁴⁰ Division of Medical Oncology , University of Southern California, Hoag Family Cancer Institute , Newport Beach, California , USA.
⁴¹ Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy , Medical University Vienna, Vienna General Hospital , Vienna , Austria.
⁴² Department of Oncology , Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark.
⁴³ Department of Oncology , University Hospital of Lausanne , Lausanne , Switzerland.
⁴⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; Section of Hematology and Oncology, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁴⁵ Cantonal Hospital Baselland , Bruderholz , Switzerland.
⁴⁶ Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center , Berlin , Germany.
⁴⁷ Hematology and Oncology, Internal Medicine , UT Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, Texas , USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Psychosomatic Division , University Hospital Basel , Basel , Switzerland.
⁴⁹ University Clinic for Internal Medicine-Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Oldenburg , Oldenburg , Germany.
⁵⁰ Clinic of Dermatology/Vienna General Hospital, Medical University Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
⁵¹ Department of Medical Oncology , Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California , Los Angeles, California , USA.
⁵² Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College , New York, New York , USA.
⁵³ Istituto Nazionale Tumori , Milan , Italy.
⁵⁴ Division for Molecular Microbiology, Children'sCancer Research Institute (CCRI), Vienna, Austria; LabDia Laboratoriumsdiagnostik GmbH, Vienna, Austria.
⁵⁵ Department of Statistics , The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) , Brussels , Belgium.
⁵⁶ Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine , Indianapolis, Indiana , USA.
⁵⁷ Division of Hematology & Oncology , University of Florida College of Medicine , Gainesville, Florida , USA.
⁵⁸ Monash Cancer Centre, Monash Health , Melbourne , Australia.
⁵⁹ Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy , Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital , Vienna , Austria.
⁶⁰ Internal Department, Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder , Vienna , Austria.
⁶¹ Department of Oncology , CHUV , Lausanne , Switzerland.
⁶² Champalimaud Foundation , Lisbon , Portugal.
⁶³ University of Athens School of Medicine , Athens , Greece.
⁶⁴ Department of Medical Oncology , Mayo Clinic , Rochester, Minnesota , USA.
⁶⁵ University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada.
⁶⁶ Department of Thoracic Oncology , National Cancer Center Hospital , Tokyo , Japan.
⁶⁷ Department of Endocrine Oncology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁶⁸ University of Torino , Torino , Italy.
⁶⁹ Fertility & Procreation Unit, Gynecologic Oncology Department , European Institute of Oncology , Milan , Italy.
⁷⁰ Hanusch Hospital , Vienna , Austria.
⁷¹ Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery , Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts , USA.
⁷² Department of Medicine , Maine Medical Center Cancer Institute , Scarborough, Maine , USA.
⁷³ Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine , Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , New York, New York , USA.
⁷⁴ Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma , Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology , Warsaw , Poland.
⁷⁵ Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Pathology, TCRU, GZA Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁷⁶ Harvard Medical School , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts , USA.
⁷⁷ Department of Epidemiology , Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
⁷⁸ Department of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology , Institut Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Sud , Villejuif , France.
⁷⁹ Division Clinical Oncology Research , University Clinic Halle (Saale), Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg , Halle , Germany.
⁸⁰ Department of Medicine , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center , Boston, Massachusetts , USA.
⁸¹ Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland , Bellinzona , Switzerland.
⁸² Dubin Breast Center, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology , Tisch Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Health System , New York, New York , USA.
⁸³ Anatomic Pathology, Scripps Clinic Department of Pathology , Scripps Green Hospital , La Jolla, California , USA.
⁸⁴ Department of Medical Oncology , San Camillo Forlanini Hospital , Rome , Italy.
⁸⁵ Psychiatric Liaison Service, Department of Psychiatry , University Hospital of Lausanne-CHUV , Lausanne , Switzerland.
⁸⁶ Oncological Palliative Medicine, Clinic Oncology/Hematology, Department Internal Medicine & Palliative Centre , Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen , St. Gallen , Switzerland.
⁸⁷ University Hospital Zürich , Zürich , Switzerland.
⁸⁸ Institute of Cancer Policy, Conflict & Health Research Program, London , UK.
⁸⁹ Psycho-Oncology Service, Clinical Centre of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Champalimaud Foundation , Lisbon , Portugal.
⁹⁰ Department of Radiation Oncology , The Netherlands Cancer Institute , Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
⁹¹ The Netherlands Cancer Institute , Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
⁹² Department of Medicine , University of Chicago Medical Center , Chicago, Illinois , USA.
⁹³ Education, Science, and Professional Development, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) , Alexandria, Virginia , USA.
⁹⁴ Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center , New York, New York , USA.
⁹⁵ Department of General Medical Oncology , University Hospitals Leuven , Leuven , Belgium.

PMID: 27843641
PMCID: PMC5070299
DOI: 10.1136/esmoopen-2016-000097

Review

ESMO / ASCO Recommendations for a Global Curriculum in Medical Oncology Edition 2016

Christian Dittrich et al. ESMO Open. 2016.

. 2016 Sep 29;1(5):e000097.

doi: 10.1136/esmoopen-2016-000097. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ 3rd Medical Department , Centre for Oncology and Haematology, Kaiser Franz Josef-Spital , Vienna , Austria.
² Division of Hematology/Oncology , Scripps Green Cancer Center, Scripps Clinic , La Jolla, California , USA.
³ European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) , Lugano , Switzerland.
⁴ American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) , Alexandria, Virginia , USA.
⁵ Department of Medical Oncology , Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ospedali Riuniti Ancona , Ancona , Italy.
⁶ The Strategic Research Programme in Cancer, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital , Stockholm , Sweden.
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine , NK Basile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center , Beirut , Lebanon.
⁸ Department of Medical Oncology and Cellular Therapy, Medical Oncology Department , Tenon Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris , Paris , France.
⁹ Department of Oncology , HUCH Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki , Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁰ Department of Medical Oncology , University of Ioannina , Ioannina , Greece.
¹¹ Clinic of Oncology , Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital , Riga , Latvia.
¹² Medical Oncology Clinic , Jules Bordet Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles , Brussels , Belgium.
¹³ The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust , London , UK.
¹⁴ Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics , Institute of Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center , Birmingham, Alabama , USA.
¹⁵ The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) , Brussels , Belgium.
¹⁶ Department of Oncology , Cancer Practice-Mayo Clinic Cancer Center , Rochester, Minnesota , USA.
¹⁷ Breast Unit , Champalimaud Clinical Center , Lisbon , Portugal.
¹⁸ Medical Oncology Unit 2 (Adult Mesenchymal Tumours and Rare Cancers) , Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori , Milan , Italy.
¹⁹ University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , USA.
²⁰ UF Department of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology, UF Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program, Gainesville, Florida, USA; Medical Service, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
²¹ Department of Hematology , University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud , Lyon , France.
²² Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program , Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland , USA.
²³ Pathology, Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine , University of Liverpool , Liverpool , UK.
²⁴ Department of Oncology , Radiumhemmet, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital , Stockholm , Sweden.
²⁵ University of Warwick, Cancer Research Centre , Coventry , UK.
²⁶ Department of Medical Oncology , University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen , Groningen , The Netherlands.
²⁷ The Oncology Sexual Health Clinic, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts , USA.
²⁸ Department of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida , USA.
²⁹ Division of Gynecologic Oncology , University of Virginia School of Medicine , Charlottesville, Virginia , USA.
³⁰ Department of Breast Tumors , Cancer Institute "Ion Chiricuta" , Cluj-Napoca , Romania.
³¹ Department of Medicine , Roswell Park Cancer Institute , Buffalo, New York , USA.
³² Medical Oncology Department , Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) , Barcelona , Spain.
³³ Inselspital and University Hospital of Bern , Bern , Switzerland.
³⁴ Vanderbilt University School of Medicine , Nashville, Tennessee , USA.
³⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Thoracic Oncology , Institute of Oncology, Hospices Civils de Lyon , Lyon , France.
³⁶ Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging , University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen , Groningen , The Netherlands.
³⁷ Department of Medicine , University of Florida and Section of Medicine, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center , Gainesville, Florida , USA.
³⁸ Mayo Clinic Rochester , Rochester, Minnesota , USA.
³⁹ Division of Radiation Oncology , The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center , Houston, Texas , USA.
⁴⁰ Division of Medical Oncology , University of Southern California, Hoag Family Cancer Institute , Newport Beach, California , USA.
⁴¹ Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy , Medical University Vienna, Vienna General Hospital , Vienna , Austria.
⁴² Department of Oncology , Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark.
⁴³ Department of Oncology , University Hospital of Lausanne , Lausanne , Switzerland.
⁴⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; Section of Hematology and Oncology, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁴⁵ Cantonal Hospital Baselland , Bruderholz , Switzerland.
⁴⁶ Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center , Berlin , Germany.
⁴⁷ Hematology and Oncology, Internal Medicine , UT Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, Texas , USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Psychosomatic Division , University Hospital Basel , Basel , Switzerland.
⁴⁹ University Clinic for Internal Medicine-Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Oldenburg , Oldenburg , Germany.
⁵⁰ Clinic of Dermatology/Vienna General Hospital, Medical University Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
⁵¹ Department of Medical Oncology , Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California , Los Angeles, California , USA.
⁵² Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College , New York, New York , USA.
⁵³ Istituto Nazionale Tumori , Milan , Italy.
⁵⁴ Division for Molecular Microbiology, Children'sCancer Research Institute (CCRI), Vienna, Austria; LabDia Laboratoriumsdiagnostik GmbH, Vienna, Austria.
⁵⁵ Department of Statistics , The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) , Brussels , Belgium.
⁵⁶ Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine , Indianapolis, Indiana , USA.
⁵⁷ Division of Hematology & Oncology , University of Florida College of Medicine , Gainesville, Florida , USA.
⁵⁸ Monash Cancer Centre, Monash Health , Melbourne , Australia.
⁵⁹ Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy , Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital , Vienna , Austria.
⁶⁰ Internal Department, Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder , Vienna , Austria.
⁶¹ Department of Oncology , CHUV , Lausanne , Switzerland.
⁶² Champalimaud Foundation , Lisbon , Portugal.
⁶³ University of Athens School of Medicine , Athens , Greece.
⁶⁴ Department of Medical Oncology , Mayo Clinic , Rochester, Minnesota , USA.
⁶⁵ University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada.
⁶⁶ Department of Thoracic Oncology , National Cancer Center Hospital , Tokyo , Japan.
⁶⁷ Department of Endocrine Oncology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁶⁸ University of Torino , Torino , Italy.
⁶⁹ Fertility & Procreation Unit, Gynecologic Oncology Department , European Institute of Oncology , Milan , Italy.
⁷⁰ Hanusch Hospital , Vienna , Austria.
⁷¹ Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery , Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts , USA.
⁷² Department of Medicine , Maine Medical Center Cancer Institute , Scarborough, Maine , USA.
⁷³ Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine , Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , New York, New York , USA.
⁷⁴ Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma , Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology , Warsaw , Poland.
⁷⁵ Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Pathology, TCRU, GZA Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁷⁶ Harvard Medical School , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts , USA.
⁷⁷ Department of Epidemiology , Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
⁷⁸ Department of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology , Institut Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Sud , Villejuif , France.
⁷⁹ Division Clinical Oncology Research , University Clinic Halle (Saale), Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg , Halle , Germany.
⁸⁰ Department of Medicine , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center , Boston, Massachusetts , USA.
⁸¹ Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland , Bellinzona , Switzerland.
⁸² Dubin Breast Center, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology , Tisch Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Health System , New York, New York , USA.
⁸³ Anatomic Pathology, Scripps Clinic Department of Pathology , Scripps Green Hospital , La Jolla, California , USA.
⁸⁴ Department of Medical Oncology , San Camillo Forlanini Hospital , Rome , Italy.
⁸⁵ Psychiatric Liaison Service, Department of Psychiatry , University Hospital of Lausanne-CHUV , Lausanne , Switzerland.
⁸⁶ Oncological Palliative Medicine, Clinic Oncology/Hematology, Department Internal Medicine & Palliative Centre , Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen , St. Gallen , Switzerland.
⁸⁷ University Hospital Zürich , Zürich , Switzerland.
⁸⁸ Institute of Cancer Policy, Conflict & Health Research Program, London , UK.
⁸⁹ Psycho-Oncology Service, Clinical Centre of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Champalimaud Foundation , Lisbon , Portugal.
⁹⁰ Department of Radiation Oncology , The Netherlands Cancer Institute , Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
⁹¹ The Netherlands Cancer Institute , Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
⁹² Department of Medicine , University of Chicago Medical Center , Chicago, Illinois , USA.
⁹³ Education, Science, and Professional Development, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) , Alexandria, Virginia , USA.
⁹⁴ Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center , New York, New York , USA.
⁹⁵ Department of General Medical Oncology , University Hospitals Leuven , Leuven , Belgium.

PMID: 27843641
PMCID: PMC5070299
DOI: 10.1136/esmoopen-2016-000097

Abstract

The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) are publishing a new edition of the ESMO/ASCO Global Curriculum (GC) thanks to contribution of 64 ESMO-appointed and 32 ASCO-appointed authors. First published in 2004 and updated in 2010, the GC edition 2016 answers to the need for updated recommendations for the training of physicians in medical oncology by defining the standard to be fulfilled to qualify as medical oncologists. At times of internationalisation of healthcare and increased mobility of patients and physicians, the GC aims to provide state-of-the-art cancer care to all patients wherever they live. Recent progress in the field of cancer research has indeed resulted in diagnostic and therapeutic innovations such as targeted therapies as a standard therapeutic approach or personalised cancer medicine apart from the revival of immunotherapy, requiring specialised training for medical oncology trainees. Thus, several new chapters on technical contents such as molecular pathology, translational research or molecular imaging and on conceptual attitudes towards human principles like genetic counselling or survivorship have been integrated in the GC. The GC edition 2016 consists of 12 sections with 17 subsections, 44 chapters and 35 subchapters, respectively. Besides renewal in its contents, the GC underwent a principal formal change taking into consideration modern didactic principles. It is presented in a template-based format that subcategorises the detailed outcome requirements into learning objectives, awareness, knowledge and skills. Consecutive steps will be those of harmonising and implementing teaching and assessment strategies.

Keywords: Global curriculum; clinical training; didactic principles; learning objectives; medical oncology.

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AG has worked in a consulting or advisory role for Genentech/Roche (to Institution), Bayer (to Institution), Sanofi (to Institution), Bristol-Myers Squibb (to Institution), Lilly (to Institution), Boston Biomedical (to Institution), Amgen (to Institution); received research funding from Genentech/Roche (to Institution), Bayer (to Institution), Pfizer (to Institution), Eisai (to Institution), Sanofi (to Institution), Lilly (to Institution), Boston Biomedical (to Institution); received travel, accommodations, expenses from Genentech/Roche, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boston Biomedical, Amgen. SMH has stock and other ownership interests with Liquid Biotech, USA; has patents, royalties, other intellectual property with Liquid Biotech, USA. JH received advisory board and speaker fee from Tesaro and honorarium from SOBI. DVJ has worked in a consulting or advisory role for Bayer. UK received honoraria from Amgen, BMS, GSK, Glycotope, MerckSerono, Merck/MSD, Pfizer; received research support from Pfizer, MerckSerono, Innate, Sirtec. RK conduct research supported by Roche; a member of speaker's bureau of Roche, Meda, Novartis. SK received research funding from Novartis (to Institution), Merck (to Institution), Threshold Pharmaceuticals (to Institution), Gilead Sciences (to Institution), Bayer/Onyx (to Institution); received travel, accommodation, expenses from Novartis. C-HK received honoraria from Merck/Darmstadt, Amgen. MK is on speakers’ bureau for Astellas Pharma, Genentech/Roche, Sanofi, Lilly, Bayer; received research funding from Genentech/Roche (to Institution) and Merck Serono (to Institution). H-JL has received honoraria from Merck Serono, Roche, Celgene, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim; has served in a consulting or advisory role for Merck Serono, Roche, Bayer; received travel, accommodations, expenses from Merck Serono, Bayer, Roche. LL has served as a consultant/advisory for EISAI, BMS, MSD, Merck-Serono, Boehringer Ingelheim, DEBIOPHARM, SOBI, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Bayer and Roche; received research funds to institute for clinical studies from EISAI, MSD, Merck-Serono, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, AstraZeneca and Roche; received travel coverage for medical meetings from Merck-Serono, DEBIOPHARM, SOBI, Bayer. PJL received research funding from Novartis (to Institution), Celgene (to Institution), ImClone Systems (to Institution), Taiho Pharmaceutical (to Institution); has patents, royalties, other intellectual property US PPA/61/499,988 Gene Expression Analysis of Thymic Neoplasms Inventors Sunil Badve, Yesim Gokmen-Polar, Patrick Loehrer (to Institution). RIL has served in consulting or advisory role for Roche, Novartis, Janssen; received speakers’ bureau from Roche, Novartis, Janssen. MJM received research funding from Astex Pharmaceuticals (to Institution). TN has ownership interest with Bioclassifier LLC; has role for invention of PAM50 breast cancer assay, which has been licensed to NanoString technologies and being marketed as Prosigna; has served as a consultant for NanoString. KÖ received speaker bureau from Novartis, Ipsen. PÖ received consulting fees, honoraria, travel grants or lecturing fees from Amgen, Bayer, Baxalta, Celgene, EliLilly, Merck, Nordic Drugs, Prime Oncology, Sanofi Oncology. AP received honoraria and consultancy fee from Amgen, Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genmab A/S, Celgene, Janssen-Cilag, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi Aventis. MR received honoraria from AstraZeneca; has served in a consulting or advisory role for Bayer, Pfizer, McKesson; received research funding from AstraZeneca (to Institution), AbbVie (to Institution), Myriad Genetics (to Institution), Biomarin (to Institution); received travel, accommodations, expenses from AstraZeneca, Biomarin. LS has served in a consulting or advisory role for bioTheranostics. MS conduct research sponsored by AstraZeneca, Bayer, Eisai, Exelixis, Genzyme. H-JS is an advisor for Roche, Bayer. LS has served in leadership for Eviti; has served in a consulting or advisory role for Merck; has patents, royalties, other intellectual property; as Co-Editor-in-Chief of UpToDate, Oncology. JS is an employee of Genentech; received honoraria, speakers’ bureau, travel, accommodations, expenses from Genentech. CNS received honoraria or research grant from Novartis, GSK, Pfizer, Merck, Lilly, BMS, Astellas, Bayer, Janssen, Sanofi. FS received unrestricted industry grants for clinical research from Celgene, Fresenius, Helsinn; FS participates in Novartis-lead clinical trials and received punctual advisorship (boards, expert meetings) from Acacia, ACRAF, Amgen, Baxter, Celgene, Danone, Fresenius, GlaxoSmithKline, Grünenthal, Helsinn, ISIS Global, Millennium/Takeda, Mundipharma, Novartis, Novelpharm, Nycomed, Obexia, Otsuka, Ono, Pharm-Olam, Pfizer, Psioxus, PrIME, Santhera, Sunstone, Teva, Vifor. RS received honoraria or consulting fee (paid to institution) from Roche, Merck KGaA/EMD-Serono, MSD/Merck & Co, Pfizer, Ipsen Pharma, Novartis. JT has worked in a consultant/advisory role for Amgen, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, Chugai, Lilly, MSD, Merck Serono, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Symphogen, Taiho and Takeda. EV has stock and other ownership interests with McKesson; has worked in a consulting or advisory role for Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, Clovis Oncology, GeneCentric, Genentech, Merck, Synta, VentiRx, Eisai, Lilly, Transgene; received speakers’ bureau for Amgen; received research funding from Abbvie (to Institution), Bristol-Myers Squibb (to Institution), Gen Vec Inc, (to Institution), Sanofi (to Institution), Monsanto (to Institution), Cyclacel (to Institution); received travel, accommodations, expenses from Amgen. JSW has stock and other ownership interests with Altor BioScience, Celldex, cCam Biotherapeutics; received honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Genentech, Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo, GlaxoSmithKline, Eisai, Altor BioScience, Lion Biotechnologies, Amgen, Roche, Ichor Medical Systems, Celldex, cCam Biotherapeutics, Pieris; has worked in a consulting or advisory role for Celldex, Ichor Medical Systems, cCam Biotherapeutics, Lion Biotechnologies, Pieris, Altor BioScience, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Genentech, Roche, Amgen, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Daiichi Sankyo, Abbvie, Eisai; received research funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb (to Institution), Merck (to Institution), GlaxoSmithKline (to Institution), Genentech (to Institution), Astellas Pharma (to Institution), Incyte (to Institution), Roche (to Institution), Novartis (to Institution); received travel, accommodations, expenses from Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Daiichi Sankyo, Pieris, cCam Biotherapeutics, Lion Biotechnologies, Roche, Celldex, Amgen, Merck, AstraZeneca, Genentech.

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ESMO / ASCO Recommendations for a Global Curriculum in Medical Oncology Edition 2016

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