CDM - Cancer Data Management
Offered Fall Semester
Prerequisite: Admission to the Cancer Data Management Program
Co-requisite: HIM 135 (required)
Pre- or Co-requisite: HIM 110 (required)
This course provides an in-depth study of cancer registration, registry organization, types of registries, cancer registry operations, legal and ethical issues and an overview of the standards prescribed by the different cancer registry standard-setting organizations.
Offered Spring Semester
This course provides an overview of oncology disease processes, types of cancer treatments, surgical and other treatment coding and a detailed overview of the major cancer sites and clinical trial and monitoring procedures.
Offered Spring Semester
This course will introduce the principles of cancer registry abstracting, the standards for collecting individual data elements and the identification of appropriate clinical information from medical records for data capture in the abstract. The principles introduced will be consistent with current cancer registry regulatory core data requirements.
Offered Summer Semester
Co-requisite: CDM 230 (required)
This course continues with the study of registry standard organizations, networking, policies and procedures, follow-up processes, quality, database management, informatics and statistics and epidemiology.
Offered Spring Semester
This course will provide an overview of oncology coding and staging systems, regulatory and accrediting organization requirements for staging and the extent of disease concepts used by physicians and cancer surveillance organizations.
Offered Summer Semester
Co-requisite: CDM 210 (required)
This course is a continuation of the principles of cancer registry abstracting and identifying appropriate clinical information from medical records for data capture in the abstract consistent with cancer registry regulatory core data requirements.
Offered Fall Semester
Co-requisite: CDM 260 (required)
This course is an introduction to cancer statistics, principles of epidemiology, cancer surveillance, annual report preparation, presentation of cancer data and the use of statistical data for marketing and strategic planning.
Offered Fall Semester
Co-requisite: CDM 250 (required)
This course provides hands-on experience in all aspects of registry organization and operations in a cancer registry setting. A total of 160 hours will be completed under the direct supervision of a Certified Tumor Registrar in a cancer registry setting.