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Funding for Psychosocial Oncology Programs: Practical Lessons From the Front Lines
Description
APOS recognizes that the provision of psychosocial services within different oncology settings is highly prevalent but that funding for such services is a persistent and common challenge. This webinar is designed to provide practical tips and strategies to assist you in maximizing funding opportunities for the delivery of psychosocial care to cancer patients and their families. We bring together experts from across the country that have been successful in obtaining funding and support for psychosocial oncology programs at their various institutions. There are three primary funding models that will be presented and discussed during this webinar: institutional resources, philanthropic endeavors, and fee-for-service patient billing. This webinar is relevant for a broad audience of psychosocial oncology professionals, and will appeal to those in early as well as later stages of career development.
Presented by Teresa L. Deshields, PhD is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. She manages the Psycho-Oncology Service for the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She will be highlighting her experiences in obtaining institutional support for psychosocial oncology services being delivered to cancer patients and their families. Matthew Loscalzo LCSW is the Liliane Elkins Professor in Supportive Care Programs at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. He will be discussing successes and challenges with regards to obtaining philanthropic support for psychosocial oncology programs. Richard McQuellon PhD is Professor in the Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology and Oncology and Director of the Psychosocial Oncology and Cancer Patient Support Programs at Wake Forest University/Baptist Medical Center. He will offer valuable insight with regards to his experiences with implementing a fee-for-service model to support a psychosocial oncology program.
Moderated by: Michelle Cororve Fingeret PhD is a clinical psychologist with joint faculty appointments Assistant Professor in the Departments of Behavioral Science, Plastic Surgery and Head and Neck Surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. She directs a specialty psychosocial oncology service that is supported by institutional funds.
The "Multidisciplinary Training in Psycho-Oncology" is
offered by the APOS Institute for Research and Education
(AIRE) at no cost and is intended to train cancer
care professionals in key areas of psychosocial
oncology. The program includes fifteen Webcast
lectures in the five following tracks.
This continuing education program is intended to educate oncology nurses on the recognition and management of distress among cancer patients and their caregivers.
This continuing education program is intended to
educate mental health professionals about cancer, its
treatment, and common symptoms and side-effects.
The goal of this curriculum is to assure that all cancer survivors receive follow-up cancer care in which the psychosocial aspect is fully integrated and that no survivor who is distressed goes unrecognized and untreated.
Specific objectives are the following:
To teach oncologists and nurses in primary oncology clinics how to rapidly identify the survivors who are distressed and to treat their distress or refer them to appropriate counseling resources;
To use an online distance-learning approach that will allow oncology professionals who treat cancer survivors to participate in four basic lectures on psychosocial aspects of survivors and to provide them with continuing education units following an online examination;
To evaluate the impact of the pilot project of four lectures to guide further expansion of the curriculum to cover the major psychosocial issues facing cancer survivors.
The International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) and the European School of
Oncology (ESO) have partnered to create a new online lecture series in psycho-oncology.
The Multilingual Core Curriculum in Psycho-Oncology features five webcasts
in key areas of psychosocial oncology: Communication Skills, Anxiety, Distress
Management, Depression and Psychosocial Assessment. Each lecture is to be
translated into six languages: English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian
and Spanish.
Most of the translations have been completed and are posted to the IPOS and
ESO websites. IPOS and ESO request, if you view a lecture, that you please
complete the adjacent evaluation for the lecture to assist them in collecting
feedback and possibly furthering the project. To learn more, visit the IPOS Core Curriculum page.
