ESTRO 2025 - Abstract Book

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ESTRO 2025

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Speaker Abstracts Supervision skills: Where to start Sophie Perryck Radiation oncology, University hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Abstract:

Per aspera ad astra means "Through hardships to the stars" or "To the stars through difficulties."

Supervision means overseeing the work of staff, this does not have to be a person in a managerial function. A more experienced colleague overseeing a younger staff member is supervision. In this session we will discuss how to give supervision. There are multiple frameworks to help giving supervision. Proctor’s model of supervision is widely used and recognized will be explained as well as the 4C model are a few of them. There are also rules to comply with while giving supervision and keywords to consider.

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Speaker Abstracts Change management and co-creation or how to ensure high adoption of novel technologies and processes Steven Petit Radiotherapy, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Abstract: In Europe cancer incidence will increases between 2022 and 2035 with 15% (ecis.jrc.ec.europa.eu). At the same time, the working age population is decreasing. Therefore it is unlikely that the increasing incidence can be compensated by more radiation oncology professionals. Inevitably this means that more patients need to be treated per RT professional. However, RT professionals are already under a lot of strain. Therefore, for the coming years one of the most pressing questions for the field of radiation oncology, is how to treat more patients per RT professional, without an increase in work pressure or loss in job satisfaction. The solution lies is reducing the hands-on time per patient. Possible strategies to reduce hands-on time per patient include automation of clinical tasks (e.g. planning and contouring), process optimization, more efficient use of resources and hypofractionation. However, for none of these strategies it is clear upfront how much they will actually contribute to reducing hands on time per patient. Moreover, for any technological solution there is a considerable risk of non-adoption and abandonment. In this work I will present a step wise process based on lessons from change management and design thinking, to choose, develop and implement, as a department, those strategies that actually have a high likelihood to successfully lead to hands-on time reduction per patient. Without an increase in work pressure of loss of job satisfaction.