Clinical Shadowing
What does cancer clinical care look like across Oregon communities?
Learning Objectives for Clinical Shadowing
At the end of the clinical shadow, the scholar will:
Identify three different ways that a clinical health provider interacts with a cancer patient (e.g. conversations with oncologist, palliative care nurse, etc.)
Describe how clinical care changes across the cancer continuum (e.g., prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship; more about the cancer continuum)
Describe access to cancer clinical care across Oregon communities and use of telemedicine.
Help scholars see the bigger picture
Include the following frames when showing scholars your work:
Process
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?
Context
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?
Have students think about
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?
What does cancer clinical care look like?
Example Activities
Grand rounds
Team meetings
Screening approaches or procedures (maintaining patient privacy, of course)
Treatment approaches or procedures, discussions around potential treatment options, etc. (maintaining patient privacy, of course)