ONCOLOGY
PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL
| ON02P Clinical Oncology, Outpatient and Consultation |
| Course Director: |
Dr. Abby Siegel, (212) 305-9781, aas54@columbia.edu |
| Coordinator: |
Ms. Monique Cordero, (212) 305-8923, mc2523@columbia.edu |
| Given: |
All year |
| Maximum: |
1 student per month |
| Start Date/Time: |
First weekday of the month, 9:00 AM |
| Site/Location: |
CUMC, Milstein Hospital Building 6 North, Room 435 |
| Description: |
Experience in medical management of patients with malignancies.
Objectives: To learn the manifestations and natural history of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies, particularly stressing approaches to the diagnosis and the multidisciplinary care of such patients.
Learning Experience: As a member of the attending, fellow, resident and student team, students will initially evaluate inpatients on the consultation service as well as outpatients with suspected or diagnosed malignancy, ranging from early disease to those with advanced disseminated refractory cancers. Efficient diagnosis and staging will be emphasized as well as multidisciplinary treatment. Treatments will be either state of the art, or for diseases for which effective treatment does not exist, promising experimental therapies. Students will be expected to regularly consult the literature and to synthesize their findings in an informative note in the patients' chart. The clinical experience will be enhanced by participation in the Oncology Division weekly conferences.
Feedback: The attendings, fellows and residents on the service will provide evaluation. Evaluation: Jointly by house staff, fellows and attending staff.
Faculty: Oncology staff.
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| ON03P Radiation Oncology |
| Course Director: |
Dr. Peter Schiff, (212) 305-8096, pbs1@columbia.edu |
| Coordinator: |
Ms. JoAnne Coates, (212) 305-5042, jec11@columbia.edu |
| Given: |
All year |
| Maximum: |
3 students per month |
| Start Date/Time: |
First weekday of the month – 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
| Site/Location: |
CUMC, Radiation Oncology, Children’s Hospital of New York
North, Basement, Room 11 |
| Description: |
Offers clinical and/or clinical research experience in the use of radiation therapy in treating benign and neoplastic disease in children and adults.
Objective: To introduce medical students to the various roles therapeutic radiation plays in the multi modality treatment of benign and malignant diseases.
Learning Experience: The curative and palliative roles of radiation therapy alone and combined with surgery and/or chemotherapy will be demonstrated in the wide range of patients (about 100) who attend the department each day. Students will work closely with radiation oncology faculty and residents in evaluating patients in consultation, treatment planning, monitoring their course of treatment, and observing them in follow-up examinations. Students will also be exposed to such procedures as brachytherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery. The clinical experience will be enhanced by attendance at departmental conferences, interdisciplinary tumor boards and seminars. Elective schedules can be tailored to the students particular interest and goals expressed for the elective.
Feedback and Evaluation: Students will be required to prepare a short informal presentation on the topic of their choice as it pertains to oncology and radiation oncology. This will be monitored by one of the attending physicians in the department. A written evaluation for each student shall be forwarded to the Associate Dean for Student Affairs upon completion of rotation. |
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RESEARCH
| ON90P Research in Oncology (Institute of Cancer Research) |
| Course Director: |
Dr. I. Bernard Weinstein, (212) 305-6921 ibw1@columbia.edu |
| Given: |
All year, for one or more months, time to be arranged. |
| Maximum: |
2 students per period |
| Start Date/Time: |
First day of the month, 10:00 AM |
| Site/Location: |
Columbia University Medical Center, Hammer Health Science Center, 15-1510 |
| Description: |
This research group is elucidating the molecular mechanisms involved in multistage carcinogenesis.
The role of specific chemicals that initiate the carcinogenic process is being studied with respect to oncogene activation, the deletion of tumor suppressor genes, and the amplification of genes that control cell cycle progression.
Objectives: The objectives of this elective are for students to become familiar with the molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis as well as current concepts and methods in molecular biology.
Learning Experience: The methods include cell culture systems, retrovirus-derived vectors, a variety of recombinant DNA methods, and transgenic mice.
The mechanisms of action of tumor promoters are being analyzed in terms of the effects of these compounds on differentiation, signal transduction and gene expression. This laboratory has isolated cDNA clones that encode specific isoforms of protein kinase C(PKC), a key enzyme in signal transduction and tumor promotion.
These clones are being used to elucidate the roles of individual isoforms of this enzyme in signal transduction and growth control.
Abnormalities in the expression of specific isoforms of PKC in human tumors are also being analyzed.
A second project is concerned with abnormalities in cell cycle control in human cancer.
The gene cyclin D1 is often amplified and overexpressed in several types of human cancer.
The overexpression of this gene causes disturbances in growth control as well as genomic instability.
A third project involves the identification of novel natural products that might be useful in cancer prevention and therapy.
Feedback: Course director will provide direct feedback to the student on his or her performance.
Evaluation: Final evaluation to be completed by the course director. |
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