Survivors Teaching Students
Survivors Teaching Students is a practical and innovative volunteer project in which volunteers with ovarian cancer educate clinical students and work towards ending the problem of late diagnosis.
The project aims to ensure the students remember the presenters and their stories, so that when they qualify and meet people with similar symptoms they will recall the volunteers stories and consider ovarian cancer much earlier in the process of diagnosis.
Sessions provide students with the opportunity to hear directly from people with ovarian cancer and listen to them talk about their symptoms and experiences in a frank and informal way.
Medical and nursing schools can book a live webinar, in which students can hear from our volunteers and ask them questions directly about their experiences. Typical sessions last one hour and take place on Zoom. We work flexibly using live webinars and can fit in with your timetabling. We work flexibly using live webinars and can fit in with your timetabling.
STS started in 2014 in person and has been running online since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Since starting we have reached over 4,000 medical, nursing and other clinical students.
Our feedback shows that STS can improve their knowledge of ovarian cancer signs and symptoms, risk factors and referral guidelines by 50 per cent.
We have delivered STS sessions to students at various institutions across the UK, including Barts medical school at Queen Mary University of London, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Guys & St Thomas Nursing School and Newcastle University.
If you are an educator and would like to book an STS session for your students, please enquire through the button below.
Students say:
"It is easy to read about symptoms in a book but to have them described by women in this way will remain with me far more"
"It is something to always consider - women are often shunted towards the gastrointestinal department because of non-specific symptoms. It is important to communicate possibilities with patients."
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