Think NENs
Global Educational Program for Primary Care Physicians

A team of medical experts in neuroendocrine cancer (also known as neuroendocrine neoplasms or NENs) and primary care physicians (PCPs) from across the globe provides you with this free and comprehensive training with everything a primary care physician needs to know about diagnostics, treatment and care of patients with neuroendocrine cancer. 

Primary care physicians  are overloaded with immense responsibilities on a daily basis. This course design is unique because it was specially created with the family doctors’ point of view in mind. The content is guided by primary care physicians from different countries who pose their questions to prominent NEN specialists in order to shape the basic NEN knowledge framework from the lenses of the primary care.  

60+

Minutes of content
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— About Think NENs Global Educational Program

We give you the neuroendocrine cancer (NEN) knowledge from the primary care lenses

The Think NENs Global Educational Program for Primary Care Physicians represents 1 main module of 3 videos providing concise knowledge about neuroendocrine cancer diagnosis, managing patients and impact of treatments via Q&A sessions between primary care physicians and neuroendocrine neoplasm (NEN) experts from different countries. The main module can provide UEMS-EACCME® credit if the enclosed exam is completed successfully.  
The program includes supplementary video resources on related topics. The program is available free of charge.
  • All a primary care physician needs to know about NENs to spot them
  • NEN experts speaking your language
  • Primary care physicians  interviewing NEN specialists
  • Support expert network and supplementary resources available

— Why enroll 

What are you going to learn?

We understand that primary care physicians are overloaded with work and expectations. The Think NENs Global Educational Program is designed to prepare you to spot and suspect NENs symptoms, to manage a NEN patient and get in contact with a support expert network. 

Understand NENs

What are NENs, what kind of NEN patients we see in general practice, common symptoms and why these should not be confused with other possible symptoms that may pose diagnostic challenges.

What to do in suspected NENs

What tests can a primary care physician do, what are the expert referral pathways, examples of clinical scenarios of NEN.


Managing NEN patients after diagnosis

What are the common NEN treatments and issues around them to consider when managing patients in general practice. 

Our team

Meet our core team of experts

Prof. Dermot O’Toole
NET Specialist
MD, FRCPI, MBBCh. Professor of Gastroenterology and Clinical Medicine at Trinity College Dublin (TCD, The University of Dublin). Consultant Gastroenterologist at St James’ and St. Vincent’s University Hospitals Dublin, Ireland. 
Dr. David Bartlett
Primary Care Physician
AKC MBBS MRCGP PgDipDerm. Semi retired family doctor in UK. He retired from his family practice in 2017 after 35 years. He wrote "The Art of General Practice" in 2018 .
Prof. Martyn Caplin
NET Specialist
BSc (HONS), DM, FRCP. Professor of Gastroenterology and Tumor Neuroendocrinology at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London. Leads the Royal Free Hospital ENETS Centre of Excellence.
Prof. Mehmet Ungan
Primary Care Physician
MD, Professor of Family Medicine. Active Professor at Ankara University School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. Past President of WONCA Europe. 
Dr. Simron Singh
NET Specialist
MD, MPH, FRCPC. Medical oncologist and affiliate scientist in the Odette Cancer Research Program at Sunnybrook Research Institute. Assistant professor at the University of Toronto. 
Dr. Elizabeth Zide 
Emergency Medicine Physician
MD. 
A Board Certified Emergency Medicine physician with over 20 years of practice. She is also a neuroendocrine tumor patient and a strong patient advocate.   

Watch highlights

 Detecting NENs – What the PCP Needs to Know
  NEN Patients in General Practice: The Most Common Issues
  NENs Treatment and Survivorship
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