ESTRO Guide 2018

Best Practice in Radiation Oncology – AWorkshop to Train RTT Trainers In collaboration with the IAEA Part I - Train the RTT (radiation therapists) Trainers 22-26 October 2018 | Vienna, Austria

TARGET GROUP • Ten groups of three participants from ten European countries. Participants should represent or collaborate with the academic and clinical staff and the radiotherapy representative of their national society • Participants must be familiar with the current national education programme for radiation therapists (RTTs). Participants should commit to: • Initiate liaison with the national education provider and prepare appropriate documentation • Attend and evaluate the two face to face courses and maintain communication with the faculty in the interim period • Design, deliver, evaluate and provide feedback on a series of educational initiatives over a three year period. FIRSTWORKSHOP AIM • To define the gaps in radiotherapy content and encourage a greater focus on radiotherapy in the existing national education programmes and increase the standard of education for RTTs course will teach you how to develop short courses on key topics for national professionals. Do you need to set up a teaching course for RTTs in your country? This

TIMELINES • Applications to be received by 28 February 2018 • Selection to be done by 16 March 2018 • Notification and detailed information of the preparatory work to be sent by 31 May 2018.

• To equip RTTs with the skills necessary to design, organise, deliver and evaluate educational initiatives in their own language to RTTs in their own country • To raise the profile of ESTRO and to increase RTT membership and participation • To encourage RTTs to set up a regional or national network (eg. working parties, regional or national groups/society). SELECTION PROCEDURE • Applications are accepted per country • Three names together with a short description of the topics of the first planned course and the target audience (ten lines maximum) should be provided • Where IAEA support is applicable, the IAEA will make the country selection.

SCHOOL

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME Train the RTT Trainers (5 days – 26 to 29 October 2018)

During this first week there will be introductory lectures on how to design, organise, deliver and evaluate a course, supported by practical sessions. At the end of the preparatory course, it is expected that participants will have: • An outline programme, potential lecturers, evaluation procedure, checklist and timetable of tasks for the first course

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