Handbook for setting up courses

GUIDELINES FOR ESTRO LIAISON PERSONS

Assignment of the liaison persons

The liaison persons are members of the ESTRO Education and Training Committee (ETC) who liaise with the course directors/faculties of a number of courses to jointly prepare a continuous analysis (eg SWOT) for these courses. To that end they can discuss a.o. the following topics with the course directors: - How useful the ESTRO Manual is for setting up courses, if the course directors implemented any changes to be compliant with the Manual and if they have suggestions for changing/updating the Manual - Which parts of the ESTRO CC are covered by their course – What is missing and what could be improved - If there is overlap with other ESTRO courses - How the faculty is composed and if any rotation is planned - What the expectations from the faculty are towards ESTRO and the ESTRO ETC - How the course progamme and material is prepared and adapted - What their experience is with the online MCQ is and if they plan any changes/ improvements - If the aims formulated for the course have been reached - What the major strengths and weaknesses of the courses are, as shown by the evaluations from the course participants and the faculties

To facilitate the work of the liaison persons, they can dispose of the following means:

the ESTRO CC and course manual the compiled course programmes

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access to course material

- the compiled evaluations by participants - the evaluations from the faculties, based on the ESTRO template for reporting on courses - the MCQ’s and results of the MCQ’s - the possibility to participate for free to these courses

The liaison persons report to the EDC on a regular basis which allows the EDC to keep an overview on its educational events and ev come up with specific recommendations or amend the School programme

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