# Micro-learning pushed to community oncologists within 30 days of a practice change

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## TL;DR

When a trial changes the standard of care, every oncologist would receive a five-minute, case-based lesson within a month, rather than waiting for the next conference.

## Summary

Community oncologists treat most patients and see every cancer type; they cannot follow every subspecialty result. The proposal is a free service that, within 30 days of a practice-changing result or guideline update, delivers a short case-based module (with the plain-language summary and structured result), tracks completion, and links it to CME credit. Precedents include ASCO's education programmes and spaced-learning platforms.

## Fields

- Kind: Idea
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Hypothesis: Oncologists receiving 30-day micro-learning will adopt new standards in their own patients measurably faster (concordance measured via structured data) than those relying on conventional channels.
- Rationale: Spaced, case-based online learning has changed prescribing in trials in other specialties; the delay in oncology is partly informational and a timely push can address it.
- Proposed test: Cluster-randomise community practices to receive micro-learning for one year; measure guideline-concordant adoption of three new standards via structured data.
- Maturity: speculative
- Actor: clinic

## Sources

- Bottleneck evidence (Knowledge reaches practice too slowly): Morris, Wooding & Grant, The answer is 17 years, what is the question (JRSM 2011): https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2011.110180

## Connected records

- fronts: [AI & Computation](https://onco.cc/fronts/ai-computation/)
- institutions: [American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/asco/), [European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/esmo/)
- bottlenecks: [Knowledge reaches practice too slowly](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/), [Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-workforce/)
- key papers: [The answer is 17 years, what is the question: understanding time lags in translational research](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-morris-j-r-soc-med/)

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