TY - JOUR
T1 - Proposed definition of competencies for surgical neuro-oncology training
AU - Kamp, Marcel A.
AU - Malzkorn, Bastian
AU - von Sass, Christiane
AU - DiMeco, Francesco
AU - Hadjipanayis, Constantinos G.
AU - Senft, Christian
AU - Rapp, Marion
AU - Gepfner-Tuma, Irina
AU - Fountas, Konstantinos
AU - Krieg, Sandro M.
AU - Neukirchen, Martin
AU - Florian, Ioan Ștefan
AU - Schnell, Oliver
AU - Mijderwijk, Hendrik Jan
AU - Perin, Alessandro
AU - Baumgarten, Peter
AU - van Lieshout, Jasper H.
AU - Thon, Niklas
AU - Renovanz, Miriam
AU - Kahlert, Ulf
AU - Spoor, Jochem K.H.
AU - Hänggi, Daniel
AU - McLean, Aaron Lawson
AU - Mäurer, Matthias
AU - Sarrubbo, Silvio
AU - Freyschlag, Christian F.
AU - Schmidt, Nils O.
AU - Vergani, Francesco
AU - Jungk, Christine
AU - Stein, Marco
AU - Forster, Marie Therese
AU - Weinberg, Jeffrey S.
AU - Sinclair, John
AU - Belykh, Evgenii
AU - Bello, Lorenzo
AU - Mandonnet, Emmanuel
AU - Moiyadi, Aliasgar
AU - Sabel, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - Objective: The aim of this work is to define competencies and entrustable professional activities (EPAs) to be imparted within the framework of surgical neuro-oncological residency and fellowship training as well as the education of medical students. Improved and specific training in surgical neuro-oncology promotes neuro-oncological expertise, quality of surgical neuro-oncological treatment and may also contribute to further development of neuro-oncological techniques and treatment protocols. Specific curricula for a surgical neuro-oncologic education have not yet been established. Methods: We used a consensus-building approach to propose skills, competencies and EPAs to be imparted within the framework of surgical neuro-oncological training. We developed competencies and EPAs suitable for training in surgical neuro-oncology. Result: In total, 70 competencies and 8 EPAs for training in surgical neuro-oncology were proposed. EPAs were defined for the management of the deteriorating patient, the management of patients with the diagnosis of a brain tumour, tumour-based resections, function-based surgical resections of brain tumours, the postoperative management of patients, the collaboration as a member of an interdisciplinary and/or -professional team and finally for the care of palliative and dying patients and their families. Conclusions and Relevance: The present work should subsequently initiate a discussion about the proposed competencies and EPAs and, together with the following discussion, contribute to the creation of new training concepts in surgical neuro-oncology.
AB - Objective: The aim of this work is to define competencies and entrustable professional activities (EPAs) to be imparted within the framework of surgical neuro-oncological residency and fellowship training as well as the education of medical students. Improved and specific training in surgical neuro-oncology promotes neuro-oncological expertise, quality of surgical neuro-oncological treatment and may also contribute to further development of neuro-oncological techniques and treatment protocols. Specific curricula for a surgical neuro-oncologic education have not yet been established. Methods: We used a consensus-building approach to propose skills, competencies and EPAs to be imparted within the framework of surgical neuro-oncological training. We developed competencies and EPAs suitable for training in surgical neuro-oncology. Result: In total, 70 competencies and 8 EPAs for training in surgical neuro-oncology were proposed. EPAs were defined for the management of the deteriorating patient, the management of patients with the diagnosis of a brain tumour, tumour-based resections, function-based surgical resections of brain tumours, the postoperative management of patients, the collaboration as a member of an interdisciplinary and/or -professional team and finally for the care of palliative and dying patients and their families. Conclusions and Relevance: The present work should subsequently initiate a discussion about the proposed competencies and EPAs and, together with the following discussion, contribute to the creation of new training concepts in surgical neuro-oncology.
KW - Competence-based learning
KW - Competencies
KW - EPAs
KW - Education
KW - Entrustable professional activities
KW - Neuro-oncology
KW - Surgical neuro-oncology
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U2 - 10.1007/s11060-021-03750-6
DO - 10.1007/s11060-021-03750-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 33881726
AN - SCOPUS:85104598263
SN - 0167-594X
VL - 153
SP - 121
EP - 131
JO - Journal of Neuro-Oncology
JF - Journal of Neuro-Oncology
IS - 1
ER -