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In a classroom setting, students ask questions and engage with ovarian cancer survivors, who share freely about their experiences, providing invaluable patient perspectives.
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.
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.
Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation Alliance’s (OCRFA) nationwide education program, Survivors Teaching Students,® (STS) brings survivors right into healthcare classrooms to share their personal stories of how they were diagnosed, what happened and where they are now.
Survivors Teaching Students® brings ovarian cancer survivors and caregivers into medical education programs to educate future healthcare providers about ovarian cancer by sharing stories of diagnosis, treatment and survivorship, along with facts about the disease.
Survivors Teaching Students is a practical and innovative volunteer project in which volunteers with ovarian cancer educate clinical students and work towards ending the problem of late diagnosis.
Through the Survivors Teaching Students® (STS) program, in partnership with OCRA, MOCA educates future health care professionals in medical schools, nurse practitioners’ and physician assistants’ graduate programs about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer.
