Postgraduate training program for the diagnosis and follow-up of cancer: experience of the University of Oviedo, Spain.
In anticipation of the expected worldwide increase in cancer deaths, the University of Oviedo in 1987 launched a two-year-long doctorate program entitled "Training Programme for the Diagnosis and Follow up of Cancer." The course was organized in three modules, General Basis, Methods, and Applications. Doctoral candidates acquired experience in these areas by means of theoretical lessons, practical work, and seminars with required preparation of special projects. From 1987 to 1990, 30 doctoral candidates completed the program. Some developed impressive projects and doctoral theses on aspects of cancer in the course of the program, which was offered twice, in 1987-88 and in 1988-89.