ESTRO Guide 2019

“An international environment is created where students from all over the world, who are passionate about oncology, share ideas with like-minded colleagues, patients, lecturers and clinicians. Very often, presentations turn into fruitful debates on major oncological global topics.”

- Bogdan Chiva Giurca, BMBS, year 4 | Exeter Medical School, UK -

PRACTICALITIES • Max 35 participants • Fee: € 630 registration and housing and beverage during the course • All students are requested to send an abstract upfront with an oncologic topic related to cancer and cancer care in their home country / institution (T1) or related to a clinical, preclinical or translational research subject related to oncology (T2). The preparation of the abstracts should be supervised by a faculty member at the home medical school of the students. • T1 students are asked to present a poster on the topic of their abstract and the T2 students to give a short presentation on the research topic. All abstracts, posters and presentations will be reviewed and rated by the faculty members from the organising Center. The best abstract, poster and presentation will be awarded and students get a prize, a certificate and selected benefits for their further development.

VIENNA SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONCOLOGY (VSSO) • www.meduniwien.ac.at/vsso - • Contact: vsso@meduniwien.ac.at REFERENCES: Vienna international summer school on experimental and clinical oncology for medical students: an Austrian cancereducationproject.Fromm-HaidenbergerS,PohlG, Widder J, Kren G, Fitzal F, Bartsch R, de Vries J, Zielinski C, Pötter R.; J Cancer Educ. 2010;25:51-4. GRONINGENMEDICAL SCIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL ONCOLOGY • www.isoms.nl (ISOMS = International Summer school Oncology for Medical Student)s • Contact: summerschool@isoms.nl REFERENCES: Essentials in Cancer Education. de Vries J. J Cancer Educ. 1999;14:198-202 The educational yield of the international summer school “Oncology for Medical Students”. de Vries J, Szabó BG, Sleijfer DT. J Cancer Educ. 2002;17:115-20.

APPLICATION DEADLINE 30 April 2019

TheMedical University of Vienna and the University of Groningen collaborate in the organisation of a Medical Sciences Summer School Oncology for Medical Students: in even years the Summer School on Oncology is taking place the University Medical Center Groningen, in uneven years it is taking place biannually at the Medical University of Vienna. Both Summer Schools are supported by ESTRO, ESSO and ESO, by UICC and by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Cancer Education.

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