Social-oncology Services Summer internship 2025
Overview:
As professionals, social workers have a special position in relation to considering the needs of children with cancer and their families. Hence, it is important to recognize the experiences and challenges of social workers to improve care of their clients, working in the field of cancer is a highly emotional experience for health care providers. Cancer patients are often in great need and deserving of important medical care as well as appropriate emotional and mental support. Professional caregivers are in contact with terminally ill patients and their families on a daily basis and they repeatedly experience death of the patients. As an effective member of a medical team, social workers participate in multidisciplinary teams and are among the first professionals to listen empathically to the needs and concerns of children and their families. They work for their clients as advocates for comprehensive care and for proper receipt of entitlements
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this training / course participants will be able to:
- Familiar With steps of family and patient Social evaluation.
- Understand patient psychosocial reaction to the Disease.
- participate in multidisciplinary teams.
- Learn how to listen empathically to the needs and concerns of children and their families.
- Problem solving for patient and family considering his social support.
- Social services for palliative patient and his family.
Schedule:
| Date | Time (from-To) | Topic |
| Day 1 | 9 : 3PM | Introduction |
| Day 2 | 9 : 3PM | How to make a patient and family social evaluation |
| Day 3 | 9 : 3PM | Different services provided by social worker in Cancer hospital |
| Day 4 | 9 : 3PM | Working in multidisciplinary team |
| Day 5 | 9 : 3PM | Social services for Palliative Patient and his family |
Available dates:
Wave 1 : From 6/7/2025 to 10/7/2025
Wave 2 : From 13/7/2025 to 17/7/2025
Wave 3 : From 20/7/2025 to 24/7/2025
Wave 4 : From 27/7/2025 to 31/7/2025
Wave 5 : From 3/8/2025 to 7/8/2025
Wave 6 : From 10/8/2025 to 14/8/2025
Wave 7 : From 17/8/2025 to 21/8/2025
Wave 8 : From 24/8/2025 to 28/8/2025
Wave 9 : From 31/8/2025 to 4/9/2025
Wave 10: From 7/9/2025 to 11/9/2025
Wave 11 : From 14/9/2025 to 18/9/2025
Wave 12 : From 21/9/2025 to 25/9/2025
Wave 13 : From 28/9/2025 to 2/10/2025
Target Audience:
Social Worker
Certificate Requirements
In order to receive your certificate, you have to attend not less than 80%
- Hard copy for 300 Egyptian Pounds
- Soft copy for free
The fees of the course will be directed towards the treatment of our children.
Course Fees and Registration
Social-oncology internship S 2025