Pathways and Barriers to Careers in Academic Clinical Cancer Prevention: a Qualitative Study

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dc.contributor.authorKok, Melissa Y.en
dc.contributor.authorChavez, Janelle C.en
dc.contributor.authorQuesada, Pompeyo R.en
dc.contributor.authorAdegoke, Oluwapelumi T.en
dc.contributor.authorChang, Shineen
dc.contributor.departmentVirginia Tech Carilion School of Medicineen
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-03T17:54:51Zen
dc.date.available2020-12-03T17:54:51Zen
dc.date.issued2020-11-12en
dc.description.abstractNational surveys document steady declines over time in interest in academic medicine and cancer prevention careers (Am J Prev Med 54(3):444-8, 2018). Through interviews with 16 academic cancer prevention physicians at one comprehensive cancer center, this study identifies motivations and barriers to physician careers in academic cancer prevention and proposes recommendations to increase recruitment. Participants reported that cancer prevention was vague to them early in training, impairing career exploration. Further, without role models and opportunities to learn about cancer prevention, many were ignorant of career options. Many had incorrect views about cancer prevention practice being mainly within the scope of primary care physicians, and some reported colleagues viewing the rigor of cancer prevention skeptically. However, all described notable experiences-in classes, with mentors, on research projects, or from encounters with patients, motivating them to pursue academic clinical cancer prevention regardless of challenges. Clearly, a lack of both information and guidance towards careers in clinical cancer prevention has been critical barriers to robust recruitment of physicians to the field and must be addressed urgently. Helping physicians earlier during training to both understand the value of prevention and cultivate their interests in it, particularly for clinical cancer prevention, would have widespread benefits.en
dc.description.notesThe project and several authors (MYK, JCC, PQ, SC) were supported in part by an award from the National Cancer Institute (R25 CA056452, PI: Chang).en
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Cancer InstituteUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) [R25 CA056452]en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-020-01921-zen
dc.identifier.eissn1543-0154en
dc.identifier.issn0885-8195en
dc.identifier.pmid33184755en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/101001en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectOccupational choicesen
dc.subjectTrainingen
dc.subjectProfessional developmenten
dc.subjectMedicineen
dc.titlePathways and Barriers to Careers in Academic Clinical Cancer Prevention: a Qualitative Studyen
dc.title.serialJournal of Cancer Educationen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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