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Training a specialist doctor takes ten years or more. Mid-level clinicians can be trained in eighteen months to run protocol-based cancer care under supervision, and there are far more of them.
Clinical officers, physician associates, and medical officers deliver most frontline care in LMIC health systems such as Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania. A defined oncology curriculum (staging, protocol chemotherapy, toxicity management, palliative care, referral criteria) with competency assessment and a legal scope of practice would create a cadre far faster than specialist training. Malawi, Rwanda, and Tanzania have run smaller versions. The proposal is a regionally recognised qualification with a shared curriculum and examination.
Shares Projected supply of and demand for oncologists and radiation oncologists through 2025: an aging, better-insured population will result in shortage, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Projected supply of and demand for oncologists and radiation oncologists through 2025: an aging, better-insured population will result in shortage, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Projected supply of and demand for oncologists and radiation oncologists through 2025: an aging, better-insured population will result in shortage, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists.
Shares Projected supply of and demand for oncologists and radiation oncologists through 2025: an aging, better-insured population will result in shortage, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Projected supply of and demand for oncologists and radiation oncologists through 2025: an aging, better-insured population will result in shortage, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists.
Shares Projected supply of and demand for oncologists and radiation oncologists through 2025: an aging, better-insured population will result in shortage, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Projected supply of and demand for oncologists and radiation oncologists through 2025: an aging, better-insured population will result in shortage, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists.
Shares Projected supply of and demand for oncologists and radiation oncologists through 2025: an aging, better-insured population will result in shortage, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.