Clinician Engagement
Many opportunities exist for clinical care providers from across the province to become engaged in our work. We have about 1,600 clinician opportunities across Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario). Many of these positions are volunteer committee members and other advisors related to our work in the cancer system. Opportunities also exist for paid regional leads, provincial leads and case reviewers.
Opportunities to Get Involved
All opportunities for clinicians to be involved with us are posted on the Ontario Health Clinician Engagement Opportunities page.
Areas of Clinician Involvement
Clinicians are involved in our work across all areas of cancer care, including:
- First Nations, Inuit and Métis cancer control
- smoking cessation
- primary care
- survivorship
- surgical oncology
- cancer imaging and PET (positron emmission tomography)
- radiation treatment
- pathology and lab medicine
- genetic testing and services
- systemic treatment
- complex malignant hematology
- models of care
- symptom management
- nursing
- psychosocial oncology
- disease pathway management
- palliative and end-of-life care
- cancer drug reviews
- patient and provider experience and engagement
- other specialized services
Ontario cancer leads representing specific disease sites make sure the entire care continuum – from prevention to survivorship and end-of-life care – is taken into account for each type of cancer. Their work aligns to the way our patients experience care. Nine Ontario cancer leads represent these types of cancer:
- breast
- central nervous system
- gastrointestinal
- genitourinary
- gynecologic
- head and neck
- hematologic
- skin
- thoracic