INTERACT-EUROPE 100 is an ambitious project to provide cancer care professionals with the training necessary to enhance this collaboration – now coming to 100 cancer centres across Europe. The project has fostered a patient-centric approach to quality cancer care through the promotion of multi-disciplinary and multi-professional team working.
Cancer patients in Europe are treated by an array of different specialties and professions: medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgical oncologists, cancer nurses and many others. Teamwork is essential. But high functioning teamwork requires a clear understanding of each other’s roles and competencies.
The Complex Oncology Center – Ruse is the only Bulgarian organization which represents the health specialists community of Bulgaria in the INTERACT-EUROPE 100. Our tasks are mainly related to work packages 2, 3 and 4 – collaboration in identifying the design of the training programs, its delivery, as well as the recruitment and communication activities.
Throughout the WP2 Programme design, there will be a mapping of the gaps and creation of new training resources and materials. The Complex Oncology Center – Ruse has provided expertise and professional assessment in order for the final development of the modules to be achieved.
Within the WP3 Programme delivery, our organization will organize and perform the inter-specialty cancer training program and create a network of central and local facilities to support the delivery of the modules. “Train the trainers” sessions will focus on preparing local trainers to implement and promote the training programme in Bulgaria, with particular emphasis on establishing rotation visits within the cancer centers in whole Europe (EU and Ukraine).
The WP4 Recruitment and communication is vital to the implementation of the programme. It aims to achieve the enrollment of new cancer centers, trainees and trainers as part of the second cohort of the Inter-Specialty Cancer Training Programme (ISCTP). The Complex Oncology Center – Ruse will promote networking of the ISCTP trainers on a national level, as well as across borders. In this way, all shareholders will be able to communicate learning and exchange best practices from the programme to the wider cancer and healthcare community.
