Table 5 Gender, Country and Language Representation by Curricula
Curriculum | Number of Authors | Region of Publication | Proportion of Authors attributed to primary region | Proportion Female Authors | Countries Represented in Authorship | Organizational Endorsement | Translation Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ACCO: ASCO core curriculum outline [36] | 18 | North America | 18/18 (100%) | 39% | 1 | – | – |
Defining a Leader Role curriculum for radiation oncology: A global Delphi consensus study [37] | 12 | Oceania | 4/12 (33%) | 58% | 7 | – | – |
ESMO-ASCO Recommendations for a global curriculum in medical oncology 2016 [6] | 98 | Europe & North America | 95/98 (97%) | 44% | 23 | 50 national oncology societies | Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish |
ESSO Core Curriculum [38] | 33 | Europe | 32/33 (97%) | 12% | 17 | – | – |
Global curriculum in surgical oncology [5] | 6 | Europe | 3/6 (50%) | 33% | 3 | – | – |
IAEA syllabus for the education and training of radiation oncologists [8] | 27 | Europe | 14/27 (52%) | 19% | 15 | ASTRO, ESTRO | Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish (UN official languages) |
Radiation oncology training program curriculum [39] | 13 | Oceania | 13/13 (100%) | 46% | 2 | – | – |
Recommendations for a global core curriculum in medical oncology [40] | 6 | Europe & North America | 6/6 (100%) | 17% | 5 | – | – |
Recommended core curriculum for the specialist training in surgical oncology within Europe [41] | 6 | Europe | 6/6 (100%) | 17% | 6 | – | – |
Specialty training curriculum for clinical oncology [42] | – | Europe | – | – | – | – | – |
Specialty training curriculum for medical oncology [43] | 4 | Europe | 4/4 (100%) | 50% | 1 | – | – |
The updated ESTRO core curricula 2011 for clinicians, medical physicists and RTTs in radiotherapy/radiation oncology [7] | 32 | Europe | 32/32 (100%) | 41% | 18 | 27 national societies | – |
Thoracic oncology HERMES: European curriculum recommendations for training in thoracic oncology [45] | 17 | Europe | 17/17 (100%) | 41% | 10 | – | Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish |
Training guidelines for surgical oncology [46] | 6 | North America | 6/6 (100%) | 17% | 1 | – | – |
European training requirements for the specialty of medical oncology [47] | 5 | Europe | 5/5 (100%) | 20% | 5 | – | – |
Updated European core curriculum for radiotherapists (radiation oncologists). Recommended curriculum for the specialist training of medical practitioners in radiotherapy (radiation oncology) within Europe [48] | 7 | Europe | 7/7 (100%) | 14% | 5 | 35 national societies | – |
Global Curriculum in Research Literacy for the Surgical Oncologist [44] | 10 | Europe | 3/10 (30%) | 40% | 3 | – | – |