The Breast Cancer Care Continuum: Prevention, Screening, Diagnosis and Management for Health Equity

This course focuses on the continuum of care for breast cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, and management with attention to medically underserved populations who have disproportionately higher  breast cancer morbidity and mortality. The course emphasizes interprofessional learning as medical and nursing students will rotate together through both didactic and clinical experiences. These clinical experiences are precepted by the interprofessional network of breast cancer care providers including, but not limited to, breast cancer care advocates/care coordinators, NPs engaged in breast cancer screening, breast radiologists, NPs and MDs with expertise in oncology, and social workers/psychologists/psychiatrists with expertise in cancer care.