ESTRO Guide 2019

ESTROOnline Educational Resources and Tools

Access to quality education is a top priority of the ESTRO School. The School therefore continues to invest in the development of e-learning and blended learning opportunities as a complement to its live educational offer.

FALCON Fellowship inAnatomicdeLineation&CONtouring

The ESTRO online contouring programme

The ESTRO online educational library for radiation oncology

ESTRO has developed an innovative and hands-on educational platform for training contouring skills. FALCON ( Fellowship in Anatomic deLineation and CONtouring ) provides interactive teaching in tumour target and OAR contouring and uses for this purpose EduCase, a web-based delineation software.

ESTROMobility Grants Every year ESTRO offers a number of mobility grants (previously known as Technology Transfer Grants or TTGs). These grants are made available to radiation oncology professionals eager to visit another institute to learn about or gain experience with a technique, equipment or its application that is not easily available in their own institute and which would be useful to them and their department in future studies or clinical treatments. There are two application deadlines per year (spring and autumn) and dates are announced on the ESTRO website, as well as by ESTRO Flash reminders, social media and the ESTRONewsletter. 30-40% of the applications are granted. You can find this comprehensive online library at the home page of the ESTRO website and can search it by keywords or type of educational material you would like to consult: • Webcasts from ESTRO congresses • Congress abstracts • Course material from the ESTRO live courses (limited to course participants and to Supporting Ambassador members) • All articles published in the ESTRO Journal Radiotherapy & Oncolog y • ESTRO guidelines • FALCON delineation exercises Anyone can access the service library and view the content; full access depends on ESTRO membership status or participation in ESTRO activities. Selectedmaterial can be saved, printed and emailed.

Live courses and workshops ESTRO started implementing EduCase, FALCON’s contouring tool, in its live teaching programme in 2010. Since then the online delineation exercises has been used in 90 clinically orientated and/or image focused live courses and more than 65 hands-on delineation workshops at annual ESTRO conferences. Online workshops In 2012, ESTRO organised the first online FALCON workshop. Online workshops include 20-30 participants and are conducted through web-conferences over a time span of two weeks. The sessions are very interactive and offer the opportunity to set side by side delineations from participants and experts and discuss the interobserver variability and the available guidelines. The number of online workshops has gradually increased and since 2016, a full annual programme of ten workshops on different tumour sites was available for radiation oncology professionals worldwide to participate in (See page 110). FALCON in 2019 • 14 live courses will include delineation workshops. Each such course is indicated in this Guide by the FALCON logo • 8 live FALCON workshops are planned during ESTRO 38 in Milan • 10 online FALCON workshops throughout the year. Check the 2019 FALCON online workshops on page 110 on this guide and check online the updates during the year on www.estro. org and social media.

Deadlines: 31 May and 31 October 2019 All applications should be addressed to grants@estro.org

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