ESTRO Guide 2019

“This course would be beneficial as a first step for hospitals and clinics that want to promote a safety culture in the radiotherapy environment.”

- Aquila Sharif, Lead physicist / radiotherapy clinical scientist | Milton Keynes Genesis Care, UK -

• Understand the principles of reactive management to incidents (registration, analysis and feed back to the Quality Management System) and of pro- active management of safety (incident prevention) • Know how to communicate around radiotherapy incidents, with the patient and his/her relatives, within the department itself and with the media. COURSE CONTENT • What is risk? Psychology of making mistakes • Ethicsforradiationmedicineprofessionals. A just reporting culture • Example of the genesis of an accident (take a recent example, relevant to radiotherapy of today) • ROSIS: the precursor inEurope. Frequency of incidents (who reports and what type of incidents are reported) • Taxonomy and classification, distinction between incident and accident • Analysis and return on experience (root cause analysis) • Failure mode and effect analysis • PRISMA as example (The Netherlands) • Benchmarking • Health failure mode and effect analysis (HFMEA), a prospective riskmanagement method • Practical exercises (hands on) • Communication: - to the patient - to the media - to the organisation (departmental, hospital level) • Specific training of staff, internal and external (team management) • National systems for reporting to regulatory authorities (France) • Comprehensive quality management in radiotherapy

• Legal aspects of incident reporting • Performance indicators.

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PREREQUISITES The two courses on Quality Management have been designed to be complementary and it is recommended to attend both to get a complete picture of QualityManagement. However the order in which they are taken does not matter. To fully profit from the course it is recommended that participants have at least three years experience in a radiation oncology or medical physics department in order to fully understand the radiotherapy process.

RADIATION ONCOLOGIST, MEDICAL PHYSICIST, RADIATION THERAPIST

FACULTY COURSE DIRECTOR

Pierre Scalliet, Radiation Oncologist, UCL Cliniques Universitaires St.Luc, Brussels (BE)

TEACHERS • Brendan McClean, Medical Phycisist, St. Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network, Dublin (IE) • Nicolas Pourel, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Sainte-Catherine, Avignon (FR) • Aude Vaandering, Radiation Technologist, UCL Cliniques Universitaires St.Luc, Brussels (BE) Teaching faculty is being updated, please visit www.estro.org/school for the latest information. LOCAL ORGANISERS Andrey Kaprin, President of RATRO, Moscow Kaprina Irina, Executive Director of RATRO, Moscow

TEACHINGMETHODS • 23 hours of lectures • 6 hours of practical workshops.

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT Evaluation form.

KEYWORDS Patient safety, incident management.

ACCREDITATION Application for CME recognition will be submitted to the European Accreditation Council for ContinuingMedical Education (EACCME), an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). EACCME credits are recognised by the American Medical Association towards the Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA). Information on the status of the applications can be obtained from the ESTRO office.

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