GROWING YOUR OWN CTRs ONLINE

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GROWING YOUR OWN CTRs ONLINE

• presentation developed by
• Lillian Antonelli, MS, CTR - Director
• Cancer Information Management Program
• Santa Barbara City College
• Santa Barbara, California

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Cancer Registry Fact 1

• What we know about Cancer Registrars
• Mean age 48.8
• Median age 50
• 93 female
• 86 Caucasian
• 35 Associate degree
• 41.4 BA or higher
• 23 High school
• Time in current job
• Mean 7.8 years
• Median 5.58 years

Source NCRA Workforce Study, 2006
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Cancer Registry Fact 2

• Registrar Workforce Size
• Estimated size 7,280
• Estimated growth 800 in 15 yrs
• Estimated shortfall 10 assuming no attrition
• Estimated retirements 2,500
• Attrition 500
• TOTAL ESTIMATED SHORTFALL by 2021

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Source NCRA Workforce Study, 2006
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Cancer Registry Fact 3

• Beginning in 2010, NCRA will require all CTR
  candidates to either have an associates degree
  in CIM OR a certificate in CIM along with an
  associate's degree or higher in any field.

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Cancer Registry Fact 4

• Only EIGHT NCRA-approved cancer information
  management programs
• 7 in US
• 1 in Canada
• Five degree-granting colleges in US
• Santa Barbara City College (CA)
• Scott Community College (IA)
• Owens Community College (OH)
• Davidson County Community College (NC)
• Ogeechee Technical College (GA)
• One bachelor degree program in development
• AHIMA-NCRA
• Burlington County College NJ
• College Ahuntsic - Montréal, Canada
• Davidson County Community College NC
• Lehman College NY
• Minnesota State Community and Technical College -
  MN
• Ogeechee Technical College GA

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Santa Barbara City CollegeCancer Information
Management (CIM) Program

• Associate degree and certificate programs
  implemented fall of 2000
• NCRA 3-year re-accreditation Summer 2008
• CIM Associate of Science degree graduates
  eligible to take CTR exam
• CIM certificate students eligible for exam with
  separate 2-year or 4-year college degree

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SBCCs Online College

• Accredited by Commission for Community and Junior
  Colleges
• Requirements for online students
• Online Readiness Assessment for prospective
  students

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CIM Mission Statement

• SBCCs Cancer Information Management Program
  provides high quality cancer information
  management education and training to a diverse
  population of students in order to fill community
  and employer needs for credentialed CIM
  professionals.

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Instructors

• Dedicated and experienced faculty
• Lillian Antonelli, MS, CTR (Director)
• Kathleen Davidson-Allen, CTR
• April Fritz, BA, RHIT, CTR
• Meryl Leventhal, MS, RHIT, CTR
• Katheryne Vance, BA, CTR
• Arti Parikh-Patel, PhD, MPH
• Small teacher to student ratio

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CIM Program Course Requirements (1)

• CIM 100 Registry Organization and Operations
• CIM 125 Cancer Disease Management 
• CIM 150 Oncology Coding and Staging Systems
• CIM 201 Abstracting Principles and Practice I
• CIM 202 Abstracting Principles and Practice II
• CIM 225 Cancer Patient Follow-up   
• CIM 250 Cancer Statistics and Epidemiology
• CIM 275 CIM Practicum  (160 hours of directed
• practice in a working registry)

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CIM Program Course Requirements (2)

• COMP 101 Microsoft Office
• HIT 135 Medical Terminology
• BMS 146 Human Form and Function
• MGMT 101 Introduction to Management
• HIT 204 Pathophysiology 
• HIT 101 Introduction to Health Information
• Management 
• HIT 240 Healthcare Quality Management

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CIM Associate Degree Requirements

• General Education Courses
• Social and behavioral science
• Humanities
• English composition
• Communication and critical thinking
• Elementary algebra
• Information competency
• American institutions
• PE/Health
• Oral communication
• Multicultural/gender studies
• to be taken at a local college

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Course Load Guidelines

• CIM online courses are intensive and require
• Self-direction
• Personal discipline
• Excellent time management
• Effective organizational skills
• Good study habits
• Average coursework per credit per week
• 3 hours

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Average Coursework Time by Student Status
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CIM Students

• 84 students currently active in CIM Program
• Majority are part-time students
• 21 recent graduates
• 16 students ready for CIM 275
• Data from Fall 2006 Fall 2008

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Collaboration with CCRA

• Educational partner with California Cancer
  Registrars Association (CCRA)
• CCRA
• Funded initial course development
• Markets program within California
• Members serve on CIM Advisory Board
• Continues to advocate for directed practice sites
• Supports CIM program by offering reduced tuition
  for non-California residents
• Web site www.ccraregistrars.org

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Future CIM Directions

• Migrate to Moodle online software
• Revise all classes to include 2010 data changes
• Continue offering classes each semester
• Grow to meet the needs of the cancer registry
  profession

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YES YOU CAN Grow your own cancer registry
professionals

• Encourage your employees to become certified
• Provide educational benefits to employees
• Allow students to work in your registry
• Talk up the profession to young people

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• For further information please contact
• Lillian Antonelli, CIM Director
• liantonelli_at_sbcc.edu
• or
• Dr. Gwyer Schuyler, Academic Counselor,
  schuyler_at_sbcc.edu

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• Santa Barbara City College
• sbcc.edu
• SBCC CIM web pages
• sbcc.edu/hit
• sbcc.edu/website