ESTRO Guide 2018

“Overall, it was an exceptional educational experience that truly inspired the majority of junior attendants, and definitely to be recommended”

- Georgia Prentou / Helen Prentou | Athens, Greece -

• Implementing patient-specific dosimetric QA • Radiation protection and risk analysis • Induction of secondary tumours. Specific for clinicians: • Basics of radiation physics • Dose calculation: principles and application in the TPS • Principles of radiotherapy equipment • Physical principles of advanced radiotherapy. Specific for physicists: • Reference and non-reference dosimetry • Modern dose calculation algorithms • QA for advanced delivery techniques • Oncologic concepts. 2. Clinical case discussions: The participants are invited to prepare treatment plans for selected clinical cases (homework), based on case descriptions and CT scans as provided prior to the course. During the course, the plans are discussed in small groups, regarding selected treatment techniques, planning solutions, constraints and objectives, choice of margins, protocols for image guidance, QA, etc, guided by a clinician and a physicist.

kinds of issues related to physics and technology in clinical radiotherapy as brought up by attendants.

ROADMAP

RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING AND DELIVERY

RADIATION ONCOLOGIST, MEDICAL PHYSICIST, RADIATION THERAPIST

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT • Entry and exit exam • Evaluation form.

FACULTY As the focus is on clinical application, the teachers’ team consists of both radiation oncologists (50%) and medical physicists (50%).

KEYWORDS Physics and technology in radiotherapy, modern treatment techniques.

COURSE DIRECTOR Ben Heijmen, Medical Physicist, Erasmus MC - Cancer Institute, Rotterdam (NL)

FURTHER READING Please consult the ESTRO website page of this course for further information.

TEACHERS • Tom Depuydt, Medical Physicist, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven (BE) • Michael Gubanski, Radiation Oncologist, Karolinska University Hospital – Södersjukhuset, Stockholm (SE) • Shaista Hafeez, Clinical Oncologist, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, Marsden (UK) • Ann Henry, Radiation Oncologist, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds (UK) • Mischa Hoogeman, Medical Physicist, Erasmus MC - Cancer Institute, Rotterdam (NL) • Silvia Molinelli, Medical Physicist, Fondazione CNAO, Pavia (IT) • Esther Troost, Radiation Oncologist, Centre for Radiation Research in Oncology (Oncoray), Dresden (DE)

SCHOOL

ACCREDITATION Application for CME recognitionwill be submitted to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). EACCME credits are recognised by the AmericanMedical Association towards the Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA). Information on the status of the applications can be obtained from the ESTRO office. Application for CPD recognition is submitted to the European Board for Accreditation in Medical Physics (EBAMP), as a CPD event for medical physicists.Information on the status of the applications can be obtained from the ESTROoffice.

PREREQUISITES See “2. Clinical case discussions” on left page.

LOCAL ORGANISER Tibor Major, Physicist, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest

TEACHINGMETHODS • 21 plenary lectures

• 5 lectures targeted at clinicians • 5 lectures targeted at physicists

• 3 clinical case discussion sessions in small groups • 1 informal “meet the teacher” session for (individual) discussions between participants and faculty members, potentially covering all

Ben Heijmen

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