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2 dni temu · Ovarian cancer is diagnosed in 54 U.S. patients each day, according to the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance. To help future physicians and other medical professionals recognize the disease’s warning signs, which are often misdiagnosed as common and less dangerous conditions, St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness collaborates with area medical schools in a program called Survivors Teaching Students.
Survivors Teaching Students® brings survivors and caregivers into medical education programs to educate future healthcare providers by sharing stories of diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship, along with facts about ovarian cancer.
14 maj 2024 · (From Marissa Joy Santorelli, News 12 Brooklyn, May 13, 2024) Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance partnered with SUNY Downstate Medical School to teach health care students things they won’t learn in a textbook. Volunteers spoke on their survivor stories, identifying symptoms, warning signs, diagnosis and treatment.
She volunteers for Survivors Teaching Students at Johns Hopkins, a program in which cancer survivors speak to third-year medical students to help them better understand the experience of patients with cancer and to prepare them to be better-informed and compassionate doctors.
Survivors Teaching Students (STS) STS enables survivors to speak directly to future medical professionals. This innovative program saves lives, one presentation at a time: helping future medical professionals diagnose the disease at its earliest, most treatable stages.
Created and administered by Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA), Judy’s Mission partners by facilitating the one hour STS classroom course which allows ovarian cancer survivors to share their experiences with medical and nursing students in the greater Houston area.
Survivors Teaching Students® STS introduces ovarian cancer survivors to medical education programs in universities and colleges to help educate future healthcare professionals about ovarian cancer. Survivors share stories of diagnosis, treatment and survivorship, along with facts about the disease.
