Virtual Oncology Teaching: Undergraduate Medical Students

Undergraduate Medical Students

A. Big 4 Cancer Videos

20-30 minute lectures giving an overview of each of the Big 4 cancers in the UK.

Video Prostate Cancer

Video Lung Cancer

Video Breast Cancer

Video Colon Cancer

B. Additional Videos:

Video  Oncological emergencies 

30 minute video lecture with embedded activities. Covers Neutropenic Sepsis, Hypercalcemia of malignancy, Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression and Superior Vena Cava Obstruction. Please start with a pen and blank piece of paper.

Video An introduction to Radiotherapy. 

A 38 minute video lecture and True/False Quiz. Radiotherapy will finally start to make sense! Also available are links to a walking tour following a patient’s journey in the Radiotherapy department and a video of a adult patient having a face mask made. 

Video  Virtual Experience of a Radiotherapy Treatment Room

Experience how a head and neck radiotherapy plan is delivered in a treatment room in virtual reality 

Video  Preparation of Chemotherapy in Aseptics

Aseptics is a department within Pharmacy. (3 minute video)

C. E-Learning

MDT Case Studies  http://www.mel-learn.com/mod/scorm/view.php?id=6668

(If you do not have a password for Mel-learn you can access the learning via Guest access.)

This E-learning takes you through a mock Head and Neck MDT. 5 cases with short videos of team discussions and cross sectional imaging. Curated learning points with each case and multiple choice questions to assess your learning. 

Prescription of Analgesia http://www.mel-learn.com/mod/scorm/view.php?id=6735

(If you do not have a password for Mel-learn you can access the learning via Guest access.)

This E-learning takes you through prescription of analgesia along the WHO ladder. Includes practical exercises on opioid dose calculations & appropriate prescribing using drug charts and syringe driver charts. 

D. Clinical Skills

Videos  Playlist of videos on basic and advanced clinical skills : from cannulation/catheterisation & ABGs to central line placement/arterial line placement.

E. Palliative Care 

Padlet page with resources on palliative care. Access bite sized presentations and short podcasts on symptom control.