ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S5818

RTT - Education, training, advanced practice and role developments

ESTRO 2024

Participants expressed the crucial need for programmes to be able to equip trainees with the competence to work in a stressed environment as a confident, autonomous practitioner, within their scope of practice. There was discussion over the need for training programmes to include more on justification and decision-making rather than just competence in a skill.

“…and become competent at contouring and decision-making, it fills the gap”

“We see radiographers working in specialist advanced autonomous roles and I don't think it's about saying we can tick some box, it's actually that we can prove that we’re skilled, we have the knowledge, the expertise”

All participants highlighted the change and pace in practice that had occurred over the course of their career and anticipated the changes that would occur over the next 5-10 years. Using difficult, unusual, and uncommon cases in training programmes was highly favoured. Almost all participants stated clinical practice was essential in providing the foundation for competence and autonomy.

Conclusion:

Creating successful training programmes that encompasses all needs is difficult. Clinical practice was favoured by staff as it replicates real-life working conditions, instils competence and confidence to TRs but methods such as appropriate simulation experience can supplement programmes when time and resources are limited. Clinical practice is essential to underpin key skills but thought must be given to the training environment and providing conditions that allow deeper learning around justification and decision-making.

Keywords: Training, adaptive, education

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Poster Discussion

RTT training: bridging the gap between cervical cancer online IGRT and online proactive adaptive-RT

Sophie E Alexander 1,2 , Ingrid White 2 , Lei Wang 1,2 , Roshni Patel 3 , Frances Lavender 3 , Irena Blasiak-Wal 3 , Alex Dunlop 3 , Helen A McNair 1,2 , Susan Lalondrelle 1,2 1 The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Radiotherapy, Sutton, United Kingdom. 2 The Institute of Cancer Research, Radiotherapy and Imaging, Sutton, United Kingdom. 3 The Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research, Joint department of physics, Sutton, United Kingdom

Purpose/Objective:

Chemoradiation is the primary treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer. Cervical cancer plan-of-the-day (CPOD) adaptive radiotherapy (RT) offers dosimetric benefits and potentially reduced toxicity compared to non-adapted RT [1] .