Is multidisciplinary learning valuable to build a breast cancer specialist career? The perspective of the first 2 cohorts of the ESO-ULM Certificate of Competence in Breast Cancer (CCB)

Abstract

BC management is a multifaceted and rapidly evolving field, requiring the acquisition of complex skills and knowledge that go well beyond those usually acquired during residency programs. An across the board training, covering at least part of domains from different but related specialties, must be acquired through dedicated multimodal and multidisciplinary curriculum (CV). BC care can no longer rely on generic, single specialty training. Physicians who have developed a multidisciplinary, highly specialized, and structured CV, with academic qualification, should profit from a preferential track for professional carrier advancement. The European School of Oncology (ESO), in co-operation with Ulm University, has developed a structured course, named “Certificate of Competence in Breast Cancer (CCB)”. Its aim is to provide BC specialists with multidisciplinary education and deliver an academic postgraduate title in the field. The aim of this work is to investigate the degree of satisfaction of participants to the first two editions of the course and assess the yield, if any, in terms of professional gain, both on a personal and institutional level, derived from attending the multidisciplinary training of the CCB Program.