ESTRO Annual Report 2020

1. Clinical oncology module for the ESTRO Radiation Oncology core curriculum ESTRO CORE CURRICULA

The clinical oncology module for the ESTRO core curriculum has been de- veloped and published as an addition to the fourth edition of the ESTRO Core Curriculum in Radiation Oncology/Radio- therapy (ESTRO curriculum). Clinical oncologists are physicians who combine the competencies of radiation and medical oncologists and who are therefore able tomanage cancer patients along the entire disease pathway. The fourth edition of the ESTRO curriculum has received wide support from the clinical oncology community. The aim was to develop a clinical oncology module that could be combined with the ESTRO curriculum to enable clinical oncology trainees to follow a single curriculum. A range of stakeholders, who included national society representatives, an oncologist froma low- middle-income country and a recently appointed specialist, developed and commented on iterations of the curriculum. Further modifications were made by the ESTRO Education Council.

The module is based on the CanMEDS 2015 frameworkand identifies20enabling competencies in the medical expert role that are required in addition to the ESTRO curriculum for the training of clinical oncologists. Recommendations are made regarding the levels of entrustable professional activities (EPAs) that should be attained by the end of training. The clinical oncology module, when combined with the ESTRO curriculum, covers the entire cancer patient pathway rather than beingmodality specific. It is hoped that this will benefit both national societies, as it establishes comparable standards of training in clinical oncology across Europe, and trainees, since it provides a single curriculum for clinical oncology. It may also benefit low- and middle-income countries as it offers an international clinical oncology curriculum on which they can base their training programmes.

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