At the end of the clinical placement, the scholar will:
Identify different ways that a health provider communicates with patients in clinical care.
Interact with health professionals and patients in their clinical environment.
Analyze the roles of various healthcare professionals in providing patient care.
Describe how clinical care changes across the cancer continuum (e.g., prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship; more about the cancer continuum).
Include the following frames when showing scholars your work:
Clinical process questions:
How is clinical care administered?
What safeguards are in place?
What models are used to make predictions or understand what treatment may be best for a patient?
Clinical context questions:
Who are the people who perform clinical care?
What are the settings where clinical care happens?
Where in the cancer continuum is care being provided?
Who are the vulnerable populations in cancer clinical care?
How does cancer clinical care differ for adult and pediatric populations?
What disparities or inequities are observed? (e.g., age, racial/ethnic, gender, geographic)
What advancements are you most excited about in your field? What is still needed?
What role does telemedicine have in cancer clinical care? How can access to cancer clinical care be improved?
Example Activities
Observing physicians while they do rounds around the hospital and understanding how communication is used to provide patients with care.
Participate in team meetings with the clinical team.
Observing treatment approaches or procedures and discussions around potential treatment options.