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CLERKSHIP ROTATIONS
During clerkship, or sometimes
shortly thereafter, you will complete a 3 to 4 week rotation
in Medical and Radiation Oncology. On-call will be for the
Department of Medicine, not Oncology. Post call days are given
to those covering call during this time.
Please read the Rotational
Goals and Objectives prior to beginning your rotation.
A schedule (in Excel) will
be e-mailed to you prior to your rotation. Indicated on the
schedule will be the preceptor, clinc area and the type of
clinic. Clinic areas are numbered 1 - 4 however they are sometimes
still referred to "Follow Up", "Centre",
"Lott Suite" and "Burr 1" - Please refer
to the clinic area
map.
On tab
2 of the Excel file, is a list of the Oncologists and the
sites that they presently treat as well as a list of the weekly
rounds and conferences. You're more than welcome to attend
any of the rounds but please refer to the weekly
R&C announcements for time and location. If you do
plan to attend, please ensure your preceptor is aware in case
you have to miss part of his or her clinic. Also, since the
clerkship bedside teaching and clerkship seminars are compulsory,
if you are scheduled to attend, please ensure that your preceptor
is aware at the beginning of clinic that you must leave
early.
A third tab in the attached excel file has a map of the clinic
areas on Burr 0. A quick tour will be provided on your first
day.
Clinic start times are normally
9:00 and 1:00 but can vary. Best to check with the unit clerk
or the preceptor. It's recommended that you arrive at least
10 mins prior to the beginning of clinic to review pts. charts
and familiarize yourself with the physician/nurse team.
Towards the end of your rotation,
you're expected to give a brief (10-15 mins.), informal presentation.
It can be a patient case or something of oncologic interest.
You can use PowerPoint or handouts - entirely up to you -
what's important is what you've learned.
The non-clinical time indicated on your schedule is an opportunity
for you to read around the cases you have seen and prepare
your presentation. The presentation is scheduled on the Wednesday
of your final week, at noon, in the Shea conference Room.
We have a couple of tools
you need to be aware of. They will be available in a small
orientation package provided on your first day, as will some
other documents. One is Eddy and the other, Val.
Eddy is the Evidence
Document Done by You. It's a log book
for you to keep notes on the patients you see. Ideally, one
page per patient should be completed, but 1 per clinic at
a minimum. Designed to help the student with reading around
cases and is a large part of your final evaluation.
VAL is our Speed-E-Val. A "mini" evaluation
sheet that helps compile a consensus amongst your preceptors.
These mini evaluation forms should be completed by each preceptor
(not at each clinic). It's up to the student to ensure these
get done and are considered for your final evaluation. There
are drop boxes in each clinic or you can drop them off to
or send by inter-office mail to Janice Frame.
Each Senior Medical Student
will be evaluated using the Queen's Clerkship
Clinical Practice Evaluation form.
Please complete and submit the Evaluation
of Service at the end of your rotation. It's important
that we know how we're doing.
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ELECTIVES
& OBSERVERSHIPS
Undergraduate
electives and oberserverships are supported and encouraged
in Oncology.
Please see the Queen's
School of Medicine web site for the application
process and form downloads.
Visiting electives who require
accommodations while in Kingston, please check with Queen's
Housing & Accommodation and/or for short-term stays
in one of Queen's many residences (if available), call Conference
Services at 613-533-2223.
Observerships
are also available and can offer great insight to clinical
experiences.
Observerships
can be arranged by contacting:
Janice
Frame
Queen's University Department of Oncology
Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario
25 King Street West, Kingston ON K7L 5P9
Tel.: 613-544-2631 ext. 6884
Fax: 613-546-8201
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IVAN
SMITH STUDENTSHIP
Named in honour of the late Dr. Ivan H. Smith (an internationally-known radiation oncologist, Professor of Radiation Oncology at The University of Western Ontario and Director of The Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation's London Centre), the Ivan Smith Studentships serve to familiarize medical students during undergraduate education with the work of the Regional Cancer Programs; The Princess Margaret Hospital and paediatric oncology settings, which will hopefully, encourage their entry into the field of oncology.
The Studentships are open to any student in an Ontario Faculty of Medicine, and may be held after the student has completed his or her second medical year and before graduation. The major factor in the awarding of Studentships is academic achievement.
The Studentship is of 4 weeks in duration to be taken outside the student's academic year, for which a stipend will be paid. For 2011, the weekly stipend will be $350.00.
Successful applicants will be placed either in Adult Oncology in one of the Regional Programs Centres located in:
- Hamilton
- Kingston
- London
- Ottawa
- Sudbury
- Thunder Bay
- Windsor
- Toronto-Odette Cancer Centre
- Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto
or in Paediatric Oncology at
- Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa)
- Children's Hospital of Western Ontario (London)
- McMaster University Medical Centre (Hamilton)
- Hotel Dieu Hospital (Kingston)
Within 30 days of the completion of the Studentships, each student is required to send a report describing his or her experiences. See application form for more information.
Applications
are now available and due FEBRUARY 7/2011.
Interviews will take place towards the end February. All applicants will be notified regardless of being ganted an interview or not.
Successful candidates will be notified by MARCH 28, 2011.
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BARBARA
MANSFIELD SUMMER SCHOLARSHIP
This scholarship has been
provided from funds donated in honour of Dr. Barbara Mansfield.
Offered through the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario
annually during the summer months for a minimum of 4 weeks
and a maximum of 6 weeks.
The scholarship is open to Medical students (preferably at
the end of their second year), Nursing students and Social
work students at programs in Ontario Universities.
The objective is to provide the successful candidate with
an enriching experience in the provision of supportive care
to patients with cancer. The emphasis will be on the development
of a humane understanding of the problems encountered by patients
and their families following a diagnosis of cancer and on
learning to communicate effectively and compassionately with
people with cancer. Some aspects of the program will include
participation in initial interviews with patients with cancer,
follow-up of these patients as they undergo chemotherapy and
radiation therapy, home and hospital visits, participation
in assessments and care of patients and families, participation
in Caregiver Support Groups and Pastoral Care Program.
On completion, each student is required to submit a report
describing his or her experiences.
Follow link for poster, terms of reference and application form.
Application deadline is TBA.
All applicants will be notified regardless of being ganted an interview or not.
Interviews will be held on TBA.
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MACH
GAENSSLEN RESEARCH GRANT
The Mach Gaensslen Foundation
of Canada offers, on average, 5 grants total in the field
of Oncology, Cardiology and Psychiatry. The applicants are
asked to submit a personal letter stating his or her research
interest in the chosen field, a current CV and a complete
application
form. Each discipline is to interview their applicants
and submit a rank list.
The Foundation is interested
in doing a prospective study to see whether a medical student,
given the opportunity to do research while at school, will
ever capitalise on that experience and perform any sort of
research, be it basic or clinical, after going into practice.
This means it will be necessary to follow the grant recipients
for the balance of their medical career. To allow the foundation
to do this, the grant recipients will have to agree to complete
a form to see whether during that preceding period, research
has ever been undertaken and if so, what sort. The grant recipients
must agree to provide the University with their current address
every 5 years.
Application
forms will be distributed and deadlines set by the School of Medicine.
Past recipients of the award
in Oncology and their research titles:
2007
- Tess Hammett - Do patients
undergo prostate exam while having a lower gastrointestinal
endoscopy?
- Adam Tunis - Retrospective
comparison of fine-needle aspiration and core needle biopsy
of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients
- Brendan Miles - Use
of Neoadjuvant Cisplatin-based Combination Chemotherapy
in Stage II and Stage III Transitional Cell Carcinoma of
the Bladder: Referral and Utilization Patterns Pertaining
to Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Tze Luck Chia - Implementation
of IMRT for Breast Cancer Treatment at CCSEO
2006
- Lara Hugel - Introduction
and Acceptance of New Technology in a Cancer Centre - A
Follow Up Study
- Christopher Barnes - Time
in Adjuvant Treatment in Colorectal Cancer: NCIC Database
- David Wasserman - Surrogate
markers of angiogenesis in patients receiving First Line
Chemotherapy and Bevacizumab (Avastin®) for Metastatic
Colorectal Cancer
- Ramin Kholdebarin - Introduction
to clinical trial designs in cancer medicine
2005
- Angela Chan - Bleomycin,
Vincristine and Prednisone (BOP) - A Novel Non-Myelosuppressive
Chemotherapy Regimen for Treatment of Non-hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Ashwyn Rajagopalan - The
Role of Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in the Treatment of Patients
with Esophageal Cancer at the Cancer Centre of Southeastern
Ontario at KGH
- Lara Hugel - Introduction
and Acceptance of New Technology in a Cancer Centre
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