e21006 Background: Advances in cancer screening, early detection, and targeted therapies have increased the number of cancer survivors in the United States to 18.1 million as of 2022 1 , creating a patient population with complex medical, psychosocial, and financial needs. Despite this, formal training in cancer survivorship is often lacking in internal medicine residency programs. To address this unmet educational need, residents in the Brown University Internal Medicine Program developed the “Cancer Prevention 2022. Pre-Elective (n=25) Post-Elective (n=16) Domain Confidence Rating* (Mean ± SD) Confidence Rating* (Mean ± SD) Mean Difference (Post - Pre) Cancer Prevention 2.84 ± 0.69 4.25 ± 0.58 1.41 Cancer Survivorship 2.44 ± 0.77 4.19 ± 0.66 1.75 *1 = very unconfident, 2 = unconfident, 3 = neutral, 4 = confident, 5 = very confident.
Harrop et al. (2026) studied this question.