By Stephanie Ayers | ASAP Project Coordinator
The Training African Pathologists in Cancer Diagnosis (TAPCD) workshops kick-off meeting was held Friday, February 16th. This was the first meeting in a series of bi-weekly meetings to plan for the upcoming workshop to be held November 16th -18th, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop will once again be held in conjunction with Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi (AKUHN). Course topics will include several new locally relevant cancers, including endometrial/ovarian; gastric/esophageal; head/neck; and breast. The workshop will be opened to interested participants by application and will be capped at 24 participants. This workshop will be conducted in the blended workshop style, with short lectures followed by small-group case completion. In addition, the next workshop series will incorporate several new elements, including reviews of challenging local cases, incorporation of local faculty co-trainers to ensure course sustainability, and an evening clinicopathological correlation (CPC) session.
Over the next 8 months, our team will continue tomeet to plan for workshop logistics and curricula development for the four cancer topics.
We have another exciting update as well! ASAP’s manuscript outlining the research conducted for the first three workshops was recently accepted for publication by the American Journal of Clinical Pathology (AJCP) for publication. We are excited to announce that the manuscript was published on February 19th, 2018. This article can be
accessed at the following link: https://academic.oup.com/ajcp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcp/aqx158/4872377?guestAccessKey=723401d0-ac81-40e9-a432-e9f39d571483
We are optimistic and excited for this upcoming workshop and thank you all for your continued support!
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