ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S5833

RTT - Education, training, advanced practice and role developments

ESTRO 2024

Conclusion:

The use of a think aloud method can be incorporated into radiotherapy teaching to encourage active participation as students verbalise their thoughts whilst they develop an individual treatment plan. Errors in the reasoning process can be corrected by the facilitator or by other students and provides an opportunity to deliver theory driven but clinically applied teaching to radiotherapy students.

Keywords: Radiotherapy teaching, clinical reasoning

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Enhancing Patient Education: Assessing radiation therapists' understanding of hospital guidance.

Elizabeth I Denney, Crystal Sulaiman, Tamara Hofstetter, Stephanie Tanadini-Lang, Matthias Guckenberger, Sophie Perryck

University Hospital Zürich, Radiation Oncology, Zürich, Switzerland