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INTRODUCTION The ESTRO School - Mission Statement

The European School of Radiotherapy and Oncology is an international school that aims to improve, professionalise and standardise knowledge and practice in radiation oncology and associated professions in Europe and beyond. The ESTRO School offers 35 courses live courses per year, some of which are taking place every second year. 80% of the courses take place in Europe and 20% are organised outside Europe. (Annex 1 – roadmap) . To complement the live courses, the ESTRO School offers e-learning opportunities: • FALCON Fellowship in Anatomic delineation and CONtouring: used as contouring tool in live courses and as online workshops (Annex 2 – Falcon User Guide) • DOVE Dynamic Oncology Virtual ESTRO: the ESTRO Educational platform containing peer-reviewed publications (ESTRO congress webcasts, abstracts and posters and course material) • EGLO ESTRO Global Learning Objects: the new ESTRO e-learning modules which increase the educational value of the DOVE library The former ETC (Education and Training Committee) has now become the Education Council with the following working groups: live programmes, blended learning programme with a link to Falcon, the international education programme, the core curriculum/accred- itation/Fellow programme, the pedagogical programme and the mobility programme (Annex 3 – Educational Council) .

EDUCATION COUNCIL

Core Curricula UEMS/Fellows/ Examination programme

Intercontinental education programme

Blended learning programme

Pedagogical programme

Mobility programme

Live programme

The ESTRO School organises a teachers’ retreat every other year during the congress offering brain-storming sessions in a relaxed at- mosphere to discuss pedagogical issues.

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