Improving Workforce Skills – Keeping Pace with Cancer Research

For this week’s edition of the podcast, we chat to Dr David Kok, a Radiation Oncologist and Director of Training at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, a clinical researcher and Course Convenor of the Master of Cancer Sciences degree at the University of Melbourne in partnership with the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC). It is Australia’s first cancer-specific, multidisciplinary, and wholly online program, and one of only two such online programs available in the world. Dr Kok talks us through his multiple roles as clinician, researcher and teacher and how post-graduate education and training can addresses the workforce skills gaps in cancer research and treatment. The VCCC is also a partner in MTPConnect’s REDI program that will ensure Australia has an industry-ready MTP workforce with the skills necessary to keep pace with our rapidly changing sector.