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Principles of Oncology for
Cancer Registry Professionals
May 12-16, 2008 in Reno, NV
December 8-12, 2008 in Reno, NV
Daily Class
Schedule
Specific
Information for Reno, Nevada
Students
Principles of Oncology is a concentrated five-day training
program in cancer registry operations and procedures
emphasizing accurate data collection methods. The training
program includes extensive site-specific, hands-on case
coding, abstracting and staging sessions using practice
cases that are representative of the many situations
registrars may face.
This program is endorsed by the National
Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA) and the North American
Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) and
recommended by the SEER Program of the National Cancer
Institute.
The program provides approximately 35 hours
of classroom and individualized instruction on basic
registry concepts, such as abstracting, staging
(Collaborative Staging, summary staging and TNM), ICD-O
coding, the 2007 Multiple Primaries and Histology Coding
Rules, and using other resources available to
registrars. Attendees will have the benefit of lectures as
well as a variety of practical exercises. Extensive training
materials prepared especially for this program will be
provided to registrants, as well as publications from other
registry sources.
Who Should Attend
This program is suitable for oncology
program employees (hospital-based and central registry) with
minimal knowledge of cancer, anatomy, physiology, and
medical terminology. Cancer registrars with less than one
year of experience would benefit most from this program,
however registrars with up to three years experience and
registrars preparing for the certification examination are
welcome to attend.
Class size will be limited to 20 registrants.
Fees
and Registration
The registration fee is $949.00 for the
five-day program held in Reno. The fee includes classroom
and individualized instruction; an extensive training
program manual; a full book of site-specific abstracting
guidelines, coding and staging exercises with rationales;
and a custom CD-ROM of resources materials. All
materials have been developed especially for this program
and have been extensively revised for 2008.
We recommend that you bring a large suitcase
or an extra bag to hold the materials you will receive.
Alternatively, we will assist in shipping home notebooks and other materials at the end of the program
at your expense.
Participants are
responsible for their own travel, hotel, meals, and
incidental expenses, except as noted above.
In order to register, complete our
online registration
form and pay with your credit/debit card or your PayPal
account through our secure, encrypted connection. If
your employer is paying for the course and cannot pay with a
credit/debit card, full payment must be received within 21
days of registration or 30 days prior to the start date
(whichever comes first) to ensure your class seat is not
lost.
Sorry, purchase orders are not accepted; however, you can
pay the registration fee online by credit or debit card.
Checks should be payable to:
A.Fritz and Associates, LLC
21361 Crestview Road
Reno, NV 89521-6924 |
For further information about the training
program, accommodations or travel arrangements,
contact April.
Registration is on a "first come, first
served" basis and courses can fill up as much as six weeks
ahead of the start date of the program. We strongly
recommend that you register as early as possible.
Prerequisites
Prior to the start of the workshop,
participants should be familiar with (at a minimum) the
contents of Book One (Objectives and Functions of a Tumor
Registry) and Book Three (Tumor Registrar Vocabulary: the
Composition of Medical Terms) of the Self-Instructional Manual for Tumor
Registrars.
These books, as well as a CD-ROM of the entire
Self-Instructional Manual series of books, may be obtained
free of charge from National Cancer Institute Publications
Ordering Service, P.O. Box 24128, Baltimore, MD 21227; or
online from
SEER Publications.
Homework (reading and
exercises) will be assigned Monday through Thursday nights.
Reference Materials
One of the features of this program is
learning how to use registry coding manuals and other
abstracting tools. To actively participate in the exercises,
you will need the following books:
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International Classification of
Diseases for Oncology, third edition (ICD-O-3).
Hardcover ICD-O-3 may be ordered from WHO
Publications Center USA, 5 Sand Creek Road, Albany, NY
12205. Phone 518-436-9686; fax 518-436-7433; e-mail:
QCORP@compuserve.com.
It may also be ordered from the
WHO Online
Bookshop (Alternatively you may request a free soft
cover edition of ICDO-3 at the training program.)
Collaborative Staging Manual (version
1.04). The CS manual may be downloaded from the
AJCC web site. A printed version, complete with
divider tabs, can be ordered from
NCRA. A limited number of loaner copies
are available for the duration of the training program.
Please contact us to reserve a loaner copy.
AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, sixth
edition, American Joint Committee on Cancer, 2002.
The AJCC manual may be ordered from any bookstore or
medical library (ISBN 0-387-95271-3), or directly from
the publisher.
A limited number of copies
are available as loaners for the duration of the
training program. Please contact us to reserve a
loaner copy.
Standards of the Commission
on Cancer, Volume II: Facility Oncology Registry Data
Standards (FORDS),
2007. Students may bring their own FORDS manual or
may borrow a copy for the duration of the training
program. To purchase the FORDS manual (publication
number O4CA-005), contact the American College of Surgeons
publications department, 633 North Saint Clair, Chicago,
IL 60611-3211 Phone: 312-202-5408 or
ordered online.
This manual may also be
downloaded at no cost. A limited number of loaner
copies are available for the duration of the training
program. Please contact us to reserve a loaner copy.
Multiple Primaries and
Histology Coding Rules (with updates).
The complete document is available on the
SEER
website. You can also download the rules in
various formats at our
free registry tools page.
Medical dictionary.
If you have limited knowledge of medical terminology, we
suggest that you bring the medical dictionary of your
choice.
The following references may be borrowed for
the duration of the training program; however students are
encouraged to bring their own copy if they have one.
Other materials will be provided during the training
program.
Faculty
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April Fritz, BA, RHIT, CTR
- April developed the first version of the
Principles of Oncology
training program
in 1992 and is lead instructor for
all courses.
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Louanne Currence, RHIT, CTR
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Louanne joins A.Fritz and Associates as a
co-instructor for the Principles of Oncology program,
having nearly a decade of experience teaching basic
courses in health information management programs
Faculty may be added or substituted without
prior notice.
Course
Content
This program was designed, and is taught, by
Certified Tumor Registrars. Course emphasis is on site-specific, basic
information that is necessary to do an accurate, thorough
job of abstracting and coding medical records or
quality-reviewing abstracts at the central registry level.
The objective of the course is to train new registrars to
use their reference materials and resources correctly,
rather than to memorize information.
Endorsements
This training program has been endorsed by the
National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA) and the North
American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)
and is recommended by the SEER Program of the National
Cancer Institute. It is suitable for hospital-based and
central registry-based personnel. A letter describing the
course will be provided to allied health personnel who
attend the training program for continuing education credit.
Cancellations
Registration fees less a $50.00
administrative fee will be fully refunded if notice of
cancellation is received in writing more than 30 days prior to the start of the training program. After that
time, fees are non-refundable, but in some circumstances may
be applied to attendance at another Principles of Oncology
training program.
The program sponsors reserve the right to
cancel training programs due to insufficient enrollment, but
the program has never been cancelled in the past sixteen
years. To the contrary, the training program frequently
fills up several months prior to the start of the
course.
Daily Class
Schedule
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Information for Reno
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