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About the SIOG Advanced Course
The SIOG Advanced Course in Geriatric Oncology is our unique CME accredited training programme lead by international experts in the field of geriatrics AND oncology designed to provide specific skills in assessment, care pathways and therapeutic choices about the elderly patients with cancer in order to provide the basis of the assessment and the multi-dimensional approach that should be applied to elderly cancer patients.
This 2-phase advanced course is addressed to professionals in the management of elderly cancer patients who will acquire knowledge on the general principles of cancer treatment as a multidisciplinarity with case based programmes, discussions and debates in geriatrics for clinical oncologists as well as in clinical oncology for geriatricians.
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Course dates
Phase 1 – 3 1/2-day course in Treviso, Italy from June 27-30, 2018
Phase 2 – this phase consists in attending the SIOG 2018 Annual Conference in Amsterdam from November 16-18, 2018
University Certificate will be provided to students only at the end of phase II on the proviso of attendance to both phases.
Academic year: 2018
Location of the course
Phase 1 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Centro Studi Achille e Linda Lorenzon – Viale Guglielmo Oberdan 5, 31100 Treviso, Italy
Phase 2 – RAI Amsterdam, Entrance E – Forum Centre, Europaplein 2-22, 1078 GZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Purpose of the course
The course aims are:
- To provide basic information related to cancer medicine to the geriatricians and to the application of geriatric principles to the clinical oncologists
- To train young medical oncologists and geriatricians to work together. These individuals will become the bridge between the oncological and geriatric teams in their own institutions
The course is addressed at:
- Medical oncologists completing their training since less than 5 years and medical oncology fellows
- Other clinical oncologists: surgical oncologists and radiotherapists completing their training since less than 5 years and radiotherapy fellows
- Geriatricians completing their training since less than 5 years and geriatric fellows
To register your interest and for further information please do not hesitate to contact: SIOG Head Office at nina.heraud@siog.org
Articles
November 16, 2017 – the following article “Tumour boards in geriatric oncology” was published in Age and Ageing (Bristish Geriatrics Society) and was based on contributions of several faculty members of the SIOG 2017 Advanced Course.
November 02, 2017 – an article on “A contribution to the future of geriatric oncology training: The SIOG Treviso advanced course” was published in the JGO. The article was written by Giuseppe Colloca and Silvio Monfardini.
October 05 , 2017 – an article on “The SIOG Treviso course: Students’ perspective” was published in JGO. This article was written by two students who participated in this course in 2016.
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