**Welcome to the new course, the course is live but we are still testing through some issues on the training. If you take a course and your progress is removed, please email cancercontrol@gwu.edu. 

We anticipate all changes to be completed by the end of the day on 3/18**

This comprehensive, competency-based training is free, aligns with CMS requirements for training and uses evidence-based information to prepare patient navigators to effectively address barriers to care for cancer patients and survivors. Through a collaborative process, the GW Cancer Center developed the first-ever, national consensus-based competencies for oncology patient navigators without a clinical license. The original training was released in 2015 and was updated and re-released in 2025 after extensive content update from a professional review committee and reformatting. 

 The development of this training was supported by Cooperative Agreement #5U38DP004972 and #5NU58DP006461 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  (CDC) and is currently supported by Cooperative Agreement #NU58DP007539 from the CDC. All presenters and content experts who developed this training have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. If you need an accommodation to assist in your use of the materials in the interim, please complete the Accessibility Feedback Form.

If you would like to adapt the training content or any of the supplemental resources to customize to your local context to help document eligibility for reimbursement for your navigation program, PowerPoint decks covering most of the training content ) are freely available for your use and adaptation on our Patient Navigator Training Resources page.

Include the following acknowledgment if materials are adapted:

This content was adapted from the GW Cancer Center the Oncology Patient Navigation Training: The Fundamentals (PI: Pratt-Chapman) developed and maintained by CDC cooperative agreements #NU38DP004972, #5NU58DP006461 and #NU58DP007539. The content added, changed, or adapted by our organization do not necessarily represent the views of the GW Cancer Center or the CDC.