FED: Aust medical school cancer curricula found wanting

AAP General News (Australia)
02-28-1999
FED: Aust medical school cancer curricula found wanting

A new study has found that education about cancer in Australian and New Zealand medical
schools is behind the times.

Despite the Australian Cancer Society's recommendation 10 years ago for comprehensive,
compulsory cancer courses, University of Sydney professor of cancer medicine MARTIN TATTERSALL
says change has been slow and erratic.

In an editorial in the Medical Journal of Australia, Professor TATTERSALL suggests that in
these days of performance criteria, outcome measures and …