Annual report 2017

2. Online Falcon delineation workshops take off

ESTRO launched the FALCON delineation platform at the end of 2010, with delineation exercises incorporated into a number of live courses. Later, several online workshops were organised to provide blended learning on contouring for participants around the world. This new approach started slowly, but in 2017 these online workshops took off. Eleven workshops were organised during the year and thanks to improved promotion and word-of-mouth recommendation, they were attended by an average of 25 participants per workshop.

EVOLUTION

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS TOONLINE DELINEATIONWORKSHOPS

106

106 participants

7

2015

70

70 participants

8

2016

258

258 participants

11

2017

WORKSHOPS / YEAR

DELINEATION EXERCISES IN ESTRO LIVE COURSES: 16 ESTRO live courses used FALCON EduCase for contouring exercises in 2017

DELINEATIONWORKSHOPS FOR THIRD PARTIES: FALCON EduCase was also used at live workshops at events organised by third parties, including: the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma and EMUC, IAEA, ISCO and RANZCR conferences.

Alongside these activities, ESTRO and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) initiated a collaborative project examining the benefit of education in delineation. The first results of this study confirm that education in contouring improves homogeneity in delineation, showing both a short- and long-term benefit. This highlights the importance of FALCON in delivering continuous education. STRATEGICMILESTONE

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