ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S2653

Interdisciplinary - Education in radiation therapy

ESTRO 2024

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Addressing a gap in Radiation Oncology Knowledge: A Comprehensive Junior Registrar Teaching Series

Guhan Rangaswamy 1,2,3 , Jill Nicholson 1,2,4 , Aisling M Glynn 1 , Orla Houlihan 1 , Neil Wallace 1 , Gavin Kennedy 1 , Killian Nugent 1 , Emma Connolly 1 , Geraldine Murphy 1 , Karen Olden 1 , Mary Burke 1 , Nazmy ElBeltagi 1,2 , Jerome Coffey 1,2 , Moya Cunningham 1,2 , David Fitzpatrick 1,2 , Frances K Duane 1,2 , Clare Faul 1,2,3 , Orla McArdle 1,2 1 St.Luke's Radiation Oncology Network, Radiation Oncology, Dublin, Ireland. 2 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Faculty of Radiologists and Radiation Oncologists, Dublin, Ireland. 3 Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP), Dublin, Ireland. 4 Discipline of Radiation Therapy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Purpose/Objective:

Junior doctors starting their first radiation oncology job may have some clinical experience of managing inpatient oncology workloads at senior house officer level, but minimal or no prior exposure to clinical decision making and radiotherapy treatment planning. Radiation Oncology has also been traditionally underrepresented in medical school curricula. Those who enter the Specialist Registrar (SpR) training Programme are offered a comprehensive and structured teaching programme. Those who choose to do a non-training junior registrar post to gain experience prior to entering the SpR programme have not had access to a dedicated training programme in the past. To bridge this knowledge gap we started a comprehensive teaching programme called the Junior Registrar Teaching Series. The primary objective of this was two-fold: to provide new junior registrars with a strong foundation in the fundamentals of radiation oncology, covering the basics of major tumour sites and planning basics, and to foster their interest and commitment to the field. We report on our 2-year experience of implementing this teaching programme and the feedback obtained from the junior doctors.