ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

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RTT - Education, training, advanced practice and role developments

ESTRO 2024

Conclusion:

For participants with no experience, the most preferable forms of training were group training lectures and test cases, and for participants with experience, the most preferable way to develop their skills further was by exploring how contours relate to toxicities. From both samples, the majority would prefer to meet with their trainer every couple of weeks for a check in.

Due to the small sample size of this program, further work needs to be carried out to establish a wider scale for training needs for contouring limb sarcomas.

N.B. Both first and second authors contributed equally to this work.

The last author is a clinical doctoral research fellow CDR-2018-04-ST2-004, funded by HEE/NIHR.

Keywords: sarcoma, outlining, training

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