Train Where the Cases Are

Clinical training courses at King Hussein Cancer Center, Jordan.

KHCC’s clinical training programs provide healthcare professionals with practical learning within an active comprehensive cancer center, offering exposure to real cases, multidisciplinary care pathways, and experienced clinical teams. Designed to strengthen knowledge and hands-on skills, the programs deliver focused, high-quality training relevant to healthcare professionals across the region.

Nurses, pharmacists, physicians, radiologists, and laboratory specialists train inside an active comprehensive cancer center - not a classroom.

Why KHCC

• A comprehensive cancer center. Every course runs inside live clinical service, with the case mix that comes with it.
• Small intakes. Most courses take between one and fifteen participants, so supervision is close and access is real.
• The full pathway. Courses follow cases from request or referral through to interpretation, treatment, and follow-up.
• Built for the region. Designed for professionals across the Levant, the Gulf, and North Africa.

The Courses

Chemotherapy Administration Course   Accredited · 15 CPD hours

Safe administration, rehearsed before you do it live.

Protocol review, pre-treatment assessment, dose and laboratory verification, administration, and documentation, plus extravasation, anaphylaxis, and cytotoxic spill response practiced in the Simulation Lab.

Duration	3 days	Format	70% theory / 30% simulation
Hands-on level	Simulation only	Group size	5–15 participants
CPD hours	6 hours (JNC) 15 hours (ANCC)	Experience	None required
Who it’s for	Registered nurses in oncology, infusion, hematology, and bone marrow transplant units
Qualification	Registered nurse	Good to know	English terminology needed. One-week observership by prior arrangement.

Wound Assessment and Management Course   Accredited · 12 CPD hours

Assess the wound before you choose the dressing.

Assessment, classification, measurement, and structured documentation across surgical wounds, pressure injuries, chronic wounds, and malignant or fungating wounds. Products chosen on wound characteristics, never on brand.

Duration	2 days	Format	70% theory / 30% simulation
Hands-on level	Simulation only	Group size	5–15 participants
CPD hours	6 hours (JNC) 12 hours (ANCC)	Experience	None required
Who it’s for	Nurses and healthcare staff in surgical, oncology, palliative, rehabilitation, and home care
Qualification	Nursing or healthcare qualification	Good to know	No prerequisite course.

Infection Control Course

Surveillance, outbreak investigation, and prevention that holds up.

The structure of an infection prevention program, epidemiology, surveillance and data analysis, outbreak investigation, and prevention across clinical and support services. Extend it with ten days of observership inside a cancer center treating immunocompromised patients.

Duration	6 days, or 6 + 10-day observership	Format	Theory and practical activities
Hands-on level	Observation only	Group size	10–20 participants
		Experience	Preferred, not required
Who it’s for	Nurses, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, laboratory specialists, and microbiologists
Qualification	Medical or healthcare degree	Good to know	Not intended for new graduates.

Chemotherapy Preparation Course for Pharmacists

One month inside a high-volume chemotherapy pharmacy.

Aseptic technique for handling hazardous drugs, reconstitution and dilution by dosage form and route, environmental monitoring and storage, spill and waste control management, and USP <800>, ASHP, NIOSH, and ISMP requirements in daily use. Supervised throughout and assessed against a competency sheet.

Duration	1 month	Format	Practice-based, brief theory
Hands-on level	Supervised practice	Group size	(1 participant per month)
		Experience	1 year hospital pharmacy preferred
Who it’s for	Hospital pharmacists and pharmacists in cancer centers or chemotherapy preparation services
Qualification	BPharm or PharmD	Good to know	Priority: applicants with current chemotherapy duties.

Sterile Preparation and Parenteral Nutrition Course

Aseptic technique, from garbing to beyond-use dating.

The full sterile process: work-area preparation, hand hygiene and garbing, reconstitution and dilution, environmental monitoring, storage, and waste disposal, plus the fundamentals of total parenteral nutrition. USP <797> applied at the hood rather than on a slide.

Duration	1 month	Format	Practice-based, brief theory
Hands-on level	Supervised practice	Group size	(1 participant per month)
		Experience	None required
Who it’s for	Pharmacists in hospital and sterile preparation units
Qualification	Pharmacy or Pharmacy d	Good to know	Must fit your institutional scope of practice.

Palliative Care Course

Supervised clinical practice, not observation.

Three months alongside six board-certified consultants. You progress from accompanying the team to presenting cases, communicating with families, and contributing to care plans. Covers symptom control during active treatment as well as end-of-life care.

Duration	3 months	Format	Clinical training, case-based
Hands-on level	Supervised clinical practice with patients	Group size	4–8 participants
		Experience	None required
Who it’s for	General practitioners, oncologists, internal and family medicine physicians, and medical graduates
Qualification	Medical degree	Good to know	Physicians at any career stage considered.

Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques

VMAT, SRS, SBRT, IGRT, MRgRT, and SGRT.

Simulation, planning, and delivery shaped around your specialty. Target volume and planning demonstrations, image verification and quality assurance, and multidisciplinary meetings with oncologists, physicists, therapists, and planners following one shared pathway.

Duration	1–3 months	Format	Lectures, observation, demonstrations
Hands-on level	Observation only	Group size	Maximum 3 participants
		Experience	1 year
Who it’s for	Radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiation therapists, dosimetrists, and treatment planners
Qualification	Professional qualification in the relevant field	Good to know	Priority: low- and middle-income countries. Duration under departmental review.

PCR-Based Molecular Diagnostics in Oncology:

Quality, Interpretation, and Clinical Application

The whole testing pathway, request to report.

Extraction and quantification, conventional and real-time PCR, multiplex and allele-specific PCR, gene expression, quality control, interpretation, and reporting inside the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory. One participant per cycle means the team is yours.

Duration	3 months	Format	Lectures and structured observership
Hands-on level	Observation only	Group size	1 participant
		Experience	3 years (technical roles)
Who it’s for	Laboratory and molecular diagnostics specialists, physicians, and pathologists
Qualification	Relevant technical or medical qualification	Good to know	Physicians and pathologists exempt from the experience requirement.

Body Oncology Imaging Clinical Training Course

Oncology cases, not general radiology.

CT, MRI, and ultrasound across chest, abdomen, pelvis, and other body sites for diagnosis, staging, and response assessment, with daily cases, morning meetings, protocol review, and multidisciplinary discussion.

Duration	1–3 months	Format	Daily cases and case discussion
Hands-on level	Observation only	Group size	1 per training track
		Experience	None (interest preferred)
Who it’s for	Diagnostic radiologists and CT, MRI, and ultrasound technologists
Qualification	Radiology specialty or radiography qualification	Good to know	A physician and technologist from one institution may attend together.

Pediatric Neuroimaging Clinical Training Course

Pediatric CNS tumors across the whole pathway.

MRI and CT in pediatric brain and central nervous system tumors, with previous studies available beside current ones so disease evolution and treatment response are traced rather than guessed.

Duration	1–3 months	Format	Daily cases and case discussion
Hands-on level	Observation only	Group size	1 per training track
		Experience	None (interest preferred)
Who it’s for	Diagnostic radiologists and MRI and CT technologists
Qualification	Radiology specialty or radiography qualification	Good to know	For pediatric malignancies more broadly, see Pediatric Oncology Imaging.

Pediatric Oncology Imaging Clinical Training Course

Childhood cancer imaging, diagnosis to follow-up.

MRI, CT, and ultrasound across pediatric malignancies, with radiation safety and pediatric protocol optimization treated as core rather than peripheral.

Duration	1–3 months	Format	Daily cases and case discussion
Hands-on level	Observation only	Group size	1 per training track
		Experience	None (interest preferred)
Who it’s for	Diagnostic radiologists and MRI, CT, and ultrasound technologists
Qualification	Radiology specialty or radiography qualification	Good to know	For brain and CNS tumors specifically, see Pediatric Neuroimaging.

Nine of the eleven courses are not currently accredited and do not award CPD hours or points. Participants do not independently perform procedures on patients unless permitted under applicable professional and institutional regulations.