The ASCO Cancer Education Slides are based on the Cancer.Net Guides to Cancer and provides reliable, oncologist-approved cancer information in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. These slide decks are intended for oncologists, oncology nurses, and other health-care team members with prepared presentations for patient and community group lectures.

Online, interactive conferences that support professional development by focusing on a particular area of oncology. Each Cyberounds® conference is moderated by a distinguished academic who each month posts new presentations and the learning objectives for the conference, allowing registered members the opportunity to pose questions and comments directly to the moderators. Previous conferences are archived and available for review.

Interactive games provide a fun environment to learn about new that teach users about new treatments and management techniques for oncology patients: http://www.cyberounds.com/games/hema/index.html

ESO online grandrounds allow you to attend weekly online grandrounds live by logging into the website at the specified time each Thursday to hear discussions between international experts and discussants on a variety of cancer topics, or to view previously recorded sessions for up to 6 months following the event.

Access free, online, interactive educational activities including presentation webcasts, streaming videos, podcasts, and an audio library of presentations from the NCCN Annual Conference, Annual Congress, and Regional Guidelines in Oncology Symposia regarding latest treatments and clinical practice guidelines including:

• Brain Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
• Colon/Rectal/Anal Cancers
• Oesophageal Cancer
• Gastric Cancer
• Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment
• Genitourinary Cancers
• Gynecologic Cancers
• Head and Neck Cancers
• Healthcare Policy and Practice
• Hepatobiliary Cancers
• Kidney Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Lymphoma
• Myeloma
• Pancreatic Cancer
• PET/CT Scanning
• Prostate Cancer
• Sarcoma
• Supportive Care
• Survivorship
• Thyroid Cancer

An e-learning environment for readers of the European Journal of Cancer Care. This site is designed to provide continuing education for a wide range of cancer professionals practicing in different countries. The interactive format provides a more flexible approach to learning and is a response to the ever changing pressures on time and financial support available to professionals.

A resource that assists non-cancer specialists to familiarise themselves with cancer specific departments, treatments, tests and equipment, the Virtual Departments of Clinical Oncology and Clinical Radiology guide you through the experience of visiting these areas of a hospital by providing information and case studies to explain procedures including chemotherapy, mammograms and angiography performed in these departments.

Click on a hospital staff member to find out more about their responsibilities; click on the patient to find out more about their experience and click on a piece of equipment to find out what it does.

Graphic-rich tutorials regarding various cancer issues for educational use by science teachers, medical professionals, and the interested public.

Topics covered include:

• Angiogenesis
• Blood Stem Cell Transplants
• Cancer
• Cancer and the Environment
• Cancer Genome Project
• Cancer Genomics
• Estrogen Receptor/SERMs
• Gene Testing
• Genetic Variation (SNPs)
• HPV Vaccine
• Molecular Diagnostics
• Nanodevices
• Targeted Therapies
• The Immune System.

Each tutorial is also available in PDF and PowerPoint formats.

This website specialises in providing original multimedia programs about cancer and cancer-related topics.

Featured activities include live teleconferences that participants can enter, videos, podcasts and professional development activities.

A calendar of events is included.

The Institute for Medical Education & Research, Inc. (IMER) is a leading provider of continuing education for physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who specialize in oncology.

IMER provides no-fee continuing education through a variety of live, online, and print programs highlighting current research in:

• breast cancer
• colorectal cancer
• lung cancer
• head and neck cancers

Courses target either physicians or nurses and are sorted by cancer type. Several modules include post-tests to assess learning outcomes.

A wide variety of multi-media video presentations, many with anatomical animations to be used in a variety of teaching and learning environments.

Topics include tumour-specific information and treatments including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, tomotherapy and IMRT.

Also available on the site are over 100 cancer audio podcasts on a variety of topics: http://www.muschealth.com/multimedia/Podcasts/index.aspx?type=topic&groupid=2

In cooperation with various partners, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has developed a distance learning course to assist of radiation oncology students, aiming to address the shortage of qualified radiation oncologists for cancer treatment in the Asia and Pacific region. The distance learning material contains eight topics and 71 training modules covering specialist topics required by trainee radiation oncologists including:

• Communication
• Critical Appraisal
• Functional Anatomy (Oncologically relevant anatomy)
• Molecular biology, pathology and pathogenesis
• Patient care (palliative science)
• Physics and radiation technology
• Radiobiology
• Systemic therapy for cancer (chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, immunomodulators).

Staging is the process of determining how much cancer there is in the body and where it is located that describes the extent or severity of an individual‘s cancer based on the extent of the original (primary) tumor and the extent of spread in the body, assisting clinicians to plan treatment and determine a prognosis.

Resources include:

• Staging Moments, a tumour specific series of succinct, case-based presentations featuring symptom presentation imaging work-up and pathology diagnosis, targeting difficult and common staging scenarios and clarifying the finer points of staging
• 'AJCC TNM Schema Slide Library a downloadable slide library consisting of site-specific material covering a variety of tumors including the site-specific TNM, stage grouping, and pertinent survival data.

Each CME LLC Oncology program features renowned faculty presenters from leading universities. These experts provide healthcare professionals with the latest medical advances, treatment options and preventive healthcare methods.

Formats have expanded from live meetings and publications to include online courses, PDA resources, podcasts, and more.

Users can search by specialty topics including:

• Breast Cancer
• Colorectal Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Renal Cell Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Leukemia and Supportive Care.

Each activity includes a needs assessment and learning objectives, and many include a post test to assess outcomes.

OncologyEducation.ca is a Canadian developed educational resource for medical oncology professionals.

The site includes a set of key resources and updated information to support daily clinical practice and educational needs, including:

• the latest tumour specific research and journal articles
• online CME activities
• links to treatment summaries, practice guidelines, decision aides and drug information
• a broad range of multimedia learning resources.

Learn Zone is open to healthcare professionals and members of the public and provides free and easy access to a wide variety of online resources, e-learning programs, professional development tools and information about Macmillan's latest learning and development opportunities in cancer care.

Access cancer specific e-programs and resources and explore professional development tools, including an extensive leadership and management toolbox. You can also get in touch with online learning advisers.

OncologyCorner.com is a specialty portal page on CMEcorner.com, a free multidisciplinary clearinghouse for continuing education and support tools that focus on the  treatment of a variety of cancers.

OncologyCorner.com provides clinicians with a one-stop shop for free CME activities, resources, news and upcoming events. Users can also subscribe to RSS feeds about the latest news and research, ask questions for answer by experts and receive information about the latest topics.

In 2002 MOGA received a grant from the Rural Health Support Education and Training program of the Department of Health and Ageing to conduct a series of educational workshops in rural areas on adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer. The objectives of the project were to improve knowledge of best practice treatment for colorectal cancer amongst rural medical and nurse practitioners, to improve the safety of chemotherapy administration in rural areas and to improve links, networks and consultation strategies between local practitioners and the resident or visiting medical oncologist.

A resource kit has been prepared to facilitate the conduct of similar worksops in other areas. This resource kit is available free of charge to those interested in conducting a workshop in their local area.

If you would like a copy of the kit, please contact MOGA on (02) 8247 6210 or email moga@moga.org.au.

The Project report and resource kit are available to medical and allied health practitioners interested in conducting a workshop by contacting MOGA at 02 8247 6207.

Now co-hosted by NSW Institute of Medical Education and Training (IMET) and the Cancer Institute NSW (CINSW), and conducted in partnership with the Faculty of Radiation Oncology, RANZCR, and the Medical Oncology Group, RACP, the popular Basic Sciences in Oncology course is a multidisciplinary program that provides an excellent opportunity to gain an overview of key issues in oncology. The course is designed to support best practice and provide core skills and competencies. Participants who successfully meet the course requirements will receive a Certificate of Participation at the end of the course.

Topics covered by the course include:

• anatomy
• clinical pharmacology
• communication skills training
• palliative care
• physics
• research and evidence-based medicine
• radiobiology
• tumour biology

The aim of Education Program in Cancer Care (EPICC) is to improve the quality of cancer control particularly in rural and regional Australia by providing greater opportunities for interested medical practitioners to increase their expertise in cancer management.

The objectives of EPICC are:

• To enable interested medical practitioners, particularly those in regional and rural Australia who are not specialist oncologists, to acquire sufficient knowledge and skills to play a more active role in the delivery of quality, evidenced based cancer care; and
• to develop modular learning packages in oncology to increase knowledge and skills of generalist medical practitioners in the management of cancer, including training regarding safety of chemotherapy administration and management of common complications of cancer treatments.

The outcomes of EPICC are:

• Increased skills and expertise of registered medical practitioners in implementing evidence-based cancer risk reduction interventions
• Promoting and supporting patient participation in cancer screening programs
• Facilitating early diagnosis of cancer
• Providing appropriate referral and greater coordination of care
• Increased knowledge of evidence based cancer treatment options and clinical trial participation
• Increasing awareness of chemotherapy and radiotherapy toxicities and their management
• Provision of psychosocial support and appropriate referral
• Working in multidisciplinary teams
• Increased involvement of general practitioners in multidisciplinary care of cancer patients
• Greater provision of routine cancer care in rural areas by medical practitioners to reduce the need for patient travel to metropolitan centres for care. Better educational opportunities for non-cancer specialist medical practitioners to improve skills in care coordination thereby increasing patient satisfaction.
• Increased opportunities for general practitioners in cancer education and multidisciplinary care provision to increase practitioner confidence in providing cancer care.
• Improved cancer care through coordination and education of medical practitioners in order to improve overall outcomes, especially in rural and remote areas of Australia.

This 6-hour program is series of online audiovisual lectures on palliative cancer treatment modalities: surgery, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy, radiotherapy and supportive therapy.

Learning objectives include:

PrimEd offers high quality educational experiences that engage a professional audience with the knowledge, skills, and ability to immediately implement learning.

PriMed also hosts other educational portals including UQ Health Insitu; PriMed GP and PriMed pharmacy.

Courses can be tailored to suit your educational needs. Contact: info@primed.com.au

The Sydney Cancer Centre holds a monthly Grand Rounds on the first Tuesday of the month (except school holidays) in the Kerry Packer Auditorium at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, from 12:30-1:30pm.

Enquiries can be made to Teresa Nicholls- telephone: +61-2-9565 6123

The Cancer Council NSW has a range of resources available for health professionals and educators including:

• Cancer Awareness Training Resource for Health Professionals
• Talking About Sexuality, Body Image and Cancer
• Managing Cancer Pain
• General Practitioner Screening Guide: A Desktop Decision Support Tool
• Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Module: Early Prostate Cancer
• Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Module: Rectal Cancer.

All resources can be purchased or downloaded through The Cancer Council NSW website. To order Cancer Council education resources contact Tmne Blair on 02 9334 1457.

The Cancer Council Victoria provides a range of education course, programs, workshops and seminars including:

Cancer Nursing Practice (including breast, lung and prostate nursing)

• BreastHealth
  A 1-day program for health and community workers new to breast health.
• BreastCare nurse inservice
  Download presentations from a recent inservice day.
• Communication for Clinicians
  A 1/2-day workshop delivered to small groups in your workplace.
• Sexuality & Cancer Workshops 
  Learn how to support patients through this difficult territory.
• Living with Cancer Facilitator Training
  A 2-day course. Learn to facilitate and deliver this group, patient-support program.
• Quit Educators
  The Quit website has details of 2-day courses for becoming an accredited Quit Educator.
• Education for general practice
  A range of workshops and seminars for GPs and practice nurses.

Cancer Council WA provides comprehensive information and events relevant to health professionals, including:

• Aboriginal health professionals
• Allied health professionals, including psychologists, social workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, exercise physiologists and dietitians
• General Practitioners, practice nurses and other primary care health professionals
• Palliative care professionals
• Cancer specialists (WA Clinical Oncology Group).

Further information regarding events and information is available: www.cancerwa.asn.au or education@cancerwa.asn.au.

• Backed by the resources of The University of Queensland, UQ Health Insitu provides behaviour changing professional development short courses for individuals and organisations in areas such as:
• leadership and management
• quality and safety
• clinical disciplines

Developed by the CCORE (Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes Research & Evaluation) of the South Western Sydney Area Health Service, this distance learning material contains 8 topics and 80 modules covering:

• Radiobiology
• Physics
• Oncology anatomy
• Palliation
• Chemotherapy
• Communication skills
• Molecular bioogy

The full course can be downloaded for free from IAEA website and burned to 2 CDs.

In partnership with Royal College of Nursing Australia (RCNA) and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, the Australian General Practice Network have released a new professional development elearning module for practice nurses and registered Aboriginal Health Workers on the RCNA professional development site, 3LP, the e-Learning Training Package for Medicare Item 10997.

Medicare Item 10997 relates to the provision of monitoring and support to people with a chronic disease care plan, by a practice nurse or registered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker on behalf of a general practitioner.

The elearning package is designed to enhance the role of practice nurses and Aboriginal Health Workers providing this service to patients with a chronic disease, including cancer, to support GPs to provide quality care to patients and to assist general practitioners to feel confident that practice nurses and registered Aboriginal Health Workers who successfully undertake the e-learning package are appropriately qualified and trained to provide monitoring and support for patients with a chronic disease care plan.

Information presented as elearning modules (generally Powerpoint/voice over format) that support health professionals to increase their knowledge and understanding about the various issues of patients diagnosed with gynaecological cancer.  T

he modules include:

• Gynaecological cancer patient management
• Psychosocial distress
• Sexuality
• Complementary therapies
• Pain management
• End of life
• Survivorship

The Professional Development Unit (PDU) within the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences at Deakin University offers high quality educational learning packages that provide nurses with the opportunity to update their professional skills, support their current practice, take another career direction or seek an alternative entry pathway into Higher Education.

Learning packages are available in either full (with assessment) or audit (without assessment) form.

In the Cancer Care for Health Professionals suite of learning packages, participants are encouraged to reflect on their experiences, incorporating theoretical concepts while developing skills and strategies for application in practice. There are currently two (2) learning packages available. Two additional packages will be available in late 2011.

PDU401 Learning package one: Cancer Care Body Systems and Assessment

Assisting the health professional workforce to enhance the quality of cancer care for individuals and their families, this learning package provides an introduction to body systems, diagnosis of specific types of cancer and assessment of needs and includes:

• An overview of Cancer in Australia 
• Respiratory system
• Gastrointestinal system
• Haemopoietic System/Lymphatic System
• Reproductive System
• Genitourinary System

PDU402 Learning package 2: Cancer Care: Psychosocial Perspectives (available from Trimester 2, 2010)  

Exploring the psychosocial, cultural and spiritual dimensions of cancer care from the perspectives of the patient and strategies to be addressed by the professional and the team when caring for the patient with cancer, this learning package includes:

• Principles of communication 
• Psychosocial issues in cancer care
• Models of Care
• Caring for the Professional  

For further information, please contact kerry.mcnamara@deakin.edu.au or visit the website: www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/pdu

NBOCC, in collaboration with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) is providing new educational opportunities for general practitioners, nurses and other health professionals working in rural areas to access information about the latest advances in evidence-based breast cancer treatment and care.

Using online technology, health professionals can access and participate in breast cancer education without travelling.

These modules use online technology to deliver lectures by experts across the spectrum of breast cancer care using web and audio technology. An online discussion forum for each module is available for users to ask questions about the session and receive answers.

Online modules include:

• Breast cancer diagnosis - what now?
• Breast cancer treatment - managing the impact
• Breast cancer treatment is over - what's next?

Each online module is approved with ACRRM for 1 Core PDP Point and with the Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP) QA&CPD for 2 category 2 points.

Free online courses that include a range of resources and activities including informational web pages that provide text, pictures and diagrams related to the course subject, including case studies and scenarios; self-assessment exercises to test your knowledge and understanding of each topic of the course; and further resources, covering books, journal articles and websites that have been selected by the course development team as being particularly relevant to those interested in the field.

Navigate through the course at your own pace, choosing your own route, and you can re-read any of the text and undertake any of the self-assessment exercises as often as you want.

Topics include:

• Palliative Care
• Paediatric Cancer
• Chemotherapy and specific cancers such as prostate

The Nurse Oncology Education Program offer free online continuing education modules developed by the Texas Nurses Association/Foundation.

Courses include:

• Guide to Breast Cancer
• Guide to Cervical Cancer
• Guide to Colorectal Cancer
• Guide to Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
• Guide to Haematological Malignancies
• Guide to Prevention
• Screening and Early Detection
• Guide to Prostate Cancer
• Guide to Pain Management
• Survivorship

Each course includes an educational goal and learning objectives and successful completion of each course allows participants to print a certificate of recognition.

A wide variety of web-based online courses to assist nurses to accrue CNE points to develop and maintain the highest standards of professional excellence.

The site also includes an personal electronic portfolio for members of RCNA and subscribers to track their professional development activity and points, an individual professional journal and certificates that can be printed on completion of a course.

Nurses work in specialist nurse roles providing information, support and referral to people affected by breast cancer. The Cancer Council and La Trobe University worked in collaboration to develop an innovative and comprehensive learning tool to cater for specialist nurse practice needs.

The aim of this subject is for the student to explore nursing practice as it is related to breast cancer. At the completion of this subject, the student will obtain a broad knowledge base of breast cancer along the continuum of genesis to death. This will be achieved by examining the pathophysiology of the breast and lymphatic system, therefore addressing the treatment and management of breast cancer.

The program structure includes:

• Role of the Breast Care Nurse
• Breast cancer and the Australian Cancer Councils
• Management of early breast cancer
• Locally advanced and metastatic breast cancer
• Lymphoedema and breast cancer
• Communicating with a woman with breast cancer
• Psychosocial support issues
• Sexuality and breast cancer
• Grief, loss and breast cancer and palliative care.

Developed on the articulate rapid e-learning powerpoint template kit at the Royal Hobart Hospital, this CD-ROM chemotherapy administration competency assessment tool is delivered via an e-learning format that involves evidence-based resources and questionnaires for use by nurses throughout Australia.

The package has been peer reviewed by content experts at RHH and has undergone extensive evaluation by clinical nurses, pharmacists, oncologists and educators.

To order, contact Katrina Hodge: katrina.hodge@dhhs.tas.gov.au

These supporting modules assist with the development of specialist cancer nursing competencies in conjunction with the EdCaN learning resources. Provision and coordination of care relates to the coordination, organisation and provision of nursing care. It includes the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care for people affected by cancer. Supporting modules include:

• The cancer journey and domains of specialist cancer nursing practice
• Population health concepts in cancer control
• The biology of cancer
• Cancer treatments
• Cancer treatment planning

- Fundamentals of cancer surgery
- Fundamentals of radiotherapy for cancer
- Fundamentals of systemic cancer therapies
- Fundamentals of cancer biological and molecular targeted therapies

• Supportive care
• Culture-centred approach in cancer control for Indigenous Australians

Educator resources are also included.

HOPE CINV has been developed to assist pharmacists with the supportive care of oncology patients who experience chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). This innovative e-learning initiative is designed to update knowledge on the clinical practice guidelines and recent advances in the prevention and management of CINV.

The purpose of the program is to:

• review current understanding of the pathophysiology of CINV
• review the recommended management strategies for CINV
• focus on ways to minimize CINV.

The Myeloma Nurse Learning Programme© is an innovative online learning course specifically designed for haematology and oncology nurses with a particular interest in myeloma. It has been designed to inform and challenge nurses over a series of ten self-learning modules, which include reflective activities, 3D animations and video clips from myeloma specialists and patients. At the end of each module there is a self assessment quiz, and the programme is assessed by four formal examination assessments which should be completed at the end of the programme.

The new online and updated Myeloma Nurse Learning Programme© is:

• Free and available to all nurses with an interest in myeloma
• Flexible to fit around nurses’ busy schedules
• Credit-rated by Edinburgh Napier University
• Interactive and complete with 3D animations and online media
• Up-to-date with relevant evidence and best practice to support nurses in their work

The programme has been reviewed by doctor and nurse specialists in myeloma and uses the most up to date research and best practice to inform it.

The program can be ordered from Myeloma Foundation of Australia: http://www.myeloma.org.au/ or Myeloma Foundation of UK: http://www.myeloma.org.uk/Page.aspx?pid=1288

The primary aim of this thirteen week program is to provide Division 1 Registered Nurses with the knowledge and skills required for this specialist area of practice.

Key topics covered in the program are:

• lung cancer the disease
• current trends in the treatment and management of lung cancer
• targeted assessment and management of symptoms, particularly fatigue and dyspnoea
• provision of skilled nursing care and support for patient and family throughout the disease trajectory
• impact of lung cancer on the quality of life of the patient and family
• the nurse‘s role in health education and health promotion.

The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre runs a number of face-to-face workshops on oncology.

Courses include:

• Introduction to cancer
• Cancer care emergencies
• Cancer surgery
• Cannulation (peripheral) and central venous access devices
• Chemotherapy (3 modules -only open to Registered Nurses)
• Division II cancer nursing course
• Haematology malignancies

The primary aim of this 13-week subject is to provide Division 1 Registered Nurses with knowledge and skills required for this specialist area of nursing practice.

Key topics covered:

• review of anatomy, physiology and age changes
• diseases of the prostate
• current trends in the treatment and management of prostate disease
• targeted assessment and management of symptoms related to prostate disease
• provision of skilled nursing care and support for the person and their family living with prostate cancer
• and the nurse‘s role in health education and health promotion.

Mater Private Hospital Brisbane offers a 12 month Oncology Transition Program to help Registered Nurses attain the essential competencies required to provide quality care for patients and their families living with cancer. The program is designed to enhance clinical and leadership skills and develop an ongoing commitment to professional development from the beginning of the RN‘s career.

From diagnosis to cure or palliation, Mater Private Hospital Brisbane‘s Oncology Transition Program offers challenging opportunities to exercise clinical problem solving abilities. As RN‘s progress from nursing student to proficient practitioner, hands-on, competency based training will be enhanced by a balance of clinical and theoretical components, tailored to their individual needs and goals.

These workshops, distance education and Graduate Certificate courses have been designed on a range of topics.

These include:

• Continuing professional development for enrolled nurses: palliative care
• Continuing professional development for registered nurses: breast cancer care
• Current issues in chemotherapy
• Distance education for registered nurses: breast cancer
• Chemotherapy and other systemic treatments in cancer care
• Communication in cancer care
• Principles of stoma care
• Graduate certificate courses in cancer and breast cancer nursing - for further information, see: http://www.nursing.edu.au/Online_Course/ShowCourseProfile.aspx?CourseID=582&CategoryID=1

Information about available courses and details are avaiable for download on the site.

Following the success of last year‘s course the CPG are pleased to offer this course again in 2010.

Designed to assist pharmacists in developing their clinical skills in cancer pharmacy practice, the 2-day course combines informative lectures with interactive workshops to assist practioners in developing their skills and abilities in the many processes involved in providing cancer treatment to patients. The course is aimed at pharmacists who

are already working in the area of cancer but have less than 2 years experience. A background knowledge of cancer therapy is essential to enable participation in workshops and discussions. A report regarding the 2009 course and a brochure can be downloaded here.

The major objective of the new ISNCC webinar program is to offer ISNCC members and non-members the opportunity to engage in nursing educational opportunities on a range of cancer and cancer nursing topics at a reasonable cost and in the convenience of their own office or home.

Participants and speakers only require internet and phone access; therefore, webinars provide informative, timely and cost-effective international education. Multiple participants at one institution can benefit from the same webinar by using a speakerphone and communal monitor/projector.

The application typically lasts 1 hour and can consist of more than one speaker. Questions from the audience are usually addressed at the end of the presentations thus providing a fully interactive learning medium.

This course presents the foundational knowledge that physiotherapists need to know in order to perform an initial evaluation of a cancer patient to develop an appropriate care plan.

The basic principles of cancer development, general diagnostic procedures and general medical intervention strategies are presented, with a case scenario related to each of the foundational principles included and discussed.

The course is approved for continuing professional development (CPD) or education units (CEUs) in most countries and in most states in the USA.

Lippincott’s NursingCenter.com develops credible, current, authoritative, evidence-based online resources and courses based on articles from more than 50 leading peer-reviewed nursing journals, including the American Journal of Nursing, Nursing2009, Nursing Management, The Nurse Practitioner, Nursing2009 Critical Care.

Select Oncology as your specialty for a list of multimedia education options on a wide variety of cancer topics, based on recent, peer reviewed, published articles. The relevant, referenced article is available for free download to PDF and registered members can pay a fee to undertake a knowledge test to determine their comprehension of the issues presented.

Western Schools is a well recognized, nationally accredited (US) provider of online continuing health education.

A wide range of short courses for cancer nurses are available including:

• Cancer in Women (25 hrs)
• Cancer Nursing: A Solid Foundation for Practice, 2nd Edition (36 hrs)
• Chemotherapies and Biotherapies (10 hrs)
• Holistic and Complementary Therapies (15 hrs)
• Lung Cancer (3 hrs)
• Pain & Symptom Management (1 hr)
• Pain Management: Principles and Practice (25 hrs)

The graduate courses in nursing are aimed at enabling the registered nurse to develop knowledge and consolidate skills to function as specialists within their chosen discipline. They are also aimed at providing currently specialised nurses with opportunities to advance their own sphere of professional practice.

The course flyer can be downloaded from the website.

For information regarding application procedures, see: http://www.nd.edu.au/fremantle/future%20students/domesticStudents/howToApply/auadmissions.shtml

The Graduate Diploma in Nursing Science (Oncology) is an academic plan designed to provide the registered nurse caring for people with cancer and their families the opportunity to develop further advanced theoretical knowledge and specialist skills in oncology nursing.

This program is designed to improve the student‘s knowledge of cancer disease processes treatments used and the possible out comes of these treatments improve the student‘s clinical skills necessary for practice in an area where technology is continually changing.

This will facilitate safe and competent practice; build on knowledge already acquired through working in the speciality. Encouraging the student to research and examine the literature in the area of cancer nursing will enhance this, which supports the care provided to the person with cancer, their families and friends.

The Master of Nursing (Breast Care) is a 1.5 year, full-time or 2-3 year, part-time award with exit options available at either the Graduate Certificate (one year, part-time, 60 credit points) or the Postgraduate Diploma (one year, full-time or two years part-time, 120 credit points).

The course is designed to prepare qualified nurses to care for people with breast cancer from the time of screening to diagnosis, and throughout the disease trajectory.The latest developments in research, treatments and psychosocial support are incorporated. This area of study is only available via flexi-mode delivery.

Clinical research in oncology is an enormous field that integrates the efforts of a broad multi-disciplinary team; including medical, nursing, allied health, laboratory and other professionals.

The Specialist Certificate in Clinical Research (Oncology) has been designed to bring together this multi-disciplinary group to give them a better understanding of all types of research conducted in oncology as well as provide an understanding of the essential components and features of successful research activities and research careers.

Students will gain an understanding of the breath of research in oncology and the range of career opportunities. They will be presented with some of the ethical and legal considerations relevant to clinical research in oncology. They will learn of the many different outcomes assessed by oncology clinical trials, including how and why these might differ from other disciplines.

Students will gain an appreciation of how to develop a research proposal/study protocol and will develop skills in critically appraising presentations and publications concerning oncology research. Students will also be exposed to many of the current active areas of research in clinical oncology research.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing Practice (PDNP) Cancer and Palliative Care provides you with the opportunity to extend your nursing knowledge in an area of specialty nursing and to develop a level of clinical competence consistent with proficient specialty practice. You will develop a depth and complexity of knowledge regarding Cancer and Palliative Care that enhances your specialty nursing practice in a variety of contexts and nursing roles.

The Master of Nursing (Cancer Nursing) provides an opportunity for registered nurses to acquire an advanced level of knowledge and skills in cancer nursing practice, and to prepare for specialist roles. The courses demonstrate a clear integration with advanced practice competencies that have been established by key professional nursing organisations and various specialty nursing groups.

Students can commence either a Graduate Certificate of Nursing (Cancer Nursing) or Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Cancer Nursing) and articulate upon successful completion.