ESTRO Guide 2018

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.

• Target volume and margin definitions and determination including inter-observer variations • Image handling, image fusion and networking • Geometric uncertainties in conformal radiotherapy and IMRT/VMAT • Image registration for conformal therapy, IMRT/ VMAT and IGRT • Practical collaborative group exercises • Interactive plenary sessions for case solutions. PREREQUISITES Before commencing this course participants should have: • Basic knowledge on ICRU • Access to CT-guided planning.

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IMAGING

RADIATION ONCOLOGIST, MEDICAL PHYSICIST, RADIATION THERAPIST, OTHER SPECIALIST

FACULTY As the focus is on clinical application, the teachers’ team consists of both radiation oncologists (50%) and medical physicists (50%). COURSE DIRECTOR Vincent Khoo, Clinical Oncologist, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London (UK) TEACHERS • Meritxell Arenas, Radiation Oncologist, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, Reus, (ES) • Sarah Jefferies, Radiation Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge (UK) • Stefan Delorme, Radiologist, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg (DE) • Daryl Lim Joon, Radiation Oncologist, Austin Health & Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne (AU) • Martina Kunze-Busch, Physicist, UMC St Radboud Nijmegen (NL) • Indira Madani, Radiation Oncologist, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich (CH ) • Peter Remeijer, Physicist, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam (NL) • Paul Van Houtte, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Bordet, Brussels (BE) The teaching faculty is being updated, please visit www.estro.org/school/courses for the latest information.

WHICH IMAGING COURSE TO CHOOSE?

ESTRO also organises a course on Multidisciplinary Approach of Cancer Imaging (see page 92). Multidisciplinary Approach of Cancer Imaging is a clinical course aimed at radiologists and radiation oncologists at a more advanced level. The course focusses on chest and abdo and provides detailed understanding for the use of imaging for radical therapies such as surgery, radiation, focal therapies as applied to specific and difficult clinical cases examples etc. The Multidisciplinary Approach of Cancer Imaging course focuses on chest and abdominal cancer.

TEACHINGMETHODS • 20 hours of lectures • 4 hours of practical workshops • 4 hours of case discussions.

SCHOOL

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT • Delineation exercise • Evaluation form.

KEYWORDS Anatomy, modal spread, margins, imaging, IGRT.

LOCAL ORGANISER Irina Kaprina, Executive Director, RATRO, Moscow

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

This course is using the FALCON platform (Fellowship in Anatomic deLineation and CONtouring) for the contouring exercises

FALCON Fellowship inAnatomicdeLineation&CONtouring

Vincent Khoo

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