TOGA Lung Cancer Preceptorship

An educational meeting designed for early career clinicians (medical trainees and fellows) with an interest in thoracic cancers. The Preceptorship offers an intensive and active learning program to help develop your clinical knowledge and expertise in lung cancer management.

This event enables the early career clinicians (Preceptees) to start developing relationships and receive career advice from an experienced clinician (Preceptor) beyond their own institution.

Each Preceptee is mentored when conducting a critical appraisal of evidence from a published paper that has contributed to current treatment of thoracic cancer. Preceptees will be assigned a paper of a practice-changing trial that they will need to present in 10 minutes. Before the event, Preceptors are available to review presentations and assist Preceptees with their critical appraisal.

Under the mentorship of a Preceptor, you will learn:

• the critical research that contributes to thoracic cancer standard of care today,
• how to critically appraise evidence

This ‘must-attend’ event for trainees or early fellows, will provide insight into career paths of the Preceptors, provides opportunities for networking and developing mentoring relationships. You will develop a solid understanding of the clinical management for thoracic cancers, and how clinical trials research has contributed to the evidence base for today’s practices.

Note:

• A limited number of spots are available for this event. Therefore, we restrict attendance for Preceptees to those who have not yet had an opportunity to attend the previous year’s event.
• Additionally, a limited number of spots for nurses and consumer advocates. Consumer advocates attend the event as observers and nurses are given a choice to present a paper or to simply observe.
• Travel grants will be provided to enable interstate attendees to participate.