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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.
15 paź 2024 · Before her ovarian cancer diagnosis, Trish Kifer was a kindergarten teacher. Now she’s a teacher of a different kind, helping other cancer survivors through their journeys. “I want to help others and be a navigator for them and their path,” says Kifer, who in 2021 published a book, Knowing the B.A.S.I.I.C.S. Can Save Your Life!
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.
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) 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.
1 lut 2011 · Ovarian Cancer Canada (OCC) has implemented an innovative program in selected Canadian universities, as a method to educate undergraduate medical and nursing students about ovarian cancer.
Jane has volunteered since 2005 with the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance’s “Survivors Teaching Students: Saving Women’s Lives.” This national program involves ovarian cancer survivors speaking about their symptoms and medical stories to third-year medical students.
