{"entity":{"id":"idea-data-thirty-day-practice-change-learning","kind":"idea","name":"Micro-learning pushed to community oncologists within 30 days of a practice change","aka":[],"tldr":"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.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Bottleneck evidence (Knowledge reaches practice too slowly): Morris, Wooding & Grant, The answer is 17 years, what is the question (JRSM 2011)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2011.110180"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":["ai-computation"],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["asco","esmo"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-knowledge-diffusion","b-workforce"],"keyPapers":["paper-morris-j-r-soc-med"],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"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.","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","cost":"small","horizonYears":2},"route":"/ideas/idea-data-thirty-day-practice-change-learning/","neighbours":{"section":[{"id":"ai-computation","kind":"section","name":"AI & Computation","route":"/fronts/ai-computation/"}],"institution":[{"id":"asco","kind":"institution","name":"American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)","route":"/institutions/asco/"},{"id":"esmo","kind":"institution","name":"European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)","route":"/institutions/esmo/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-knowledge-diffusion","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Knowledge reaches practice too slowly","route":"/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/"},{"id":"b-workforce","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists","route":"/bottlenecks/b-workforce/"}],"paper":[{"id":"paper-morris-j-r-soc-med","kind":"paper","name":"The answer is 17 years, what is the question: understanding time lags in translational research","route":"/key-papers/paper-morris-j-r-soc-med/"}]}}