OVERVIEW

Radiation Oncology 2024 Subscription-Based Review is organized by The Osler Institute.

Release Date: May 21, 2024
Expiration Date: May 20, 2027
Estimated Time to Complete: 38 hours

Description:
The Osler Institute recorded our Live Virtual Webinar April 2024 comprehensive Radiation Oncology Review Course and bring it to you! These Video files are stored “in the cloud,” so you can stream them anywhere, anytime, as long as you have an internet connection, watch or listen to them on your phone, computer, or tablet – your learning experience is almost like being at the live activity but without travel costs and time away from your practice. In addition, each online review is a downloadable copy of the syllabus corresponding to the Video lectures for your use while viewing or as a free-standing study or clinical practice guide.

This Subscription-Based Review provides senior trainees and clinicians in practice a comprehensive update of clinical knowledge. It helps prepare them for their Radiation Oncology exams (the initial certification and MOC). Emphasis is on evidence-based medicine, board-relevant standards of care, and new concepts, treatments, and imaging approaches. The written exams emphasize anatomy, epidemiology, etiological agents, natural history, pathology, tumor markers, initial clinical evaluation, staging, routes of spread, selection of treatment modality and techniques, surgical and adjuvant chemotherapy treatments, follow-up treatment and assessment, patterns of failure, and normal tissue effects including complications; all of these areas are addressed. The review also covers the basic principles of radiobiology and physics relevant to clinical practice.

Objectives:
After this review, each participant should be able to perform the following tasks for all cancers of the eleven ABR-defined component areas:

Describe the anatomy, epidemiology/etiologic agents, and natural history
Explain the pathology and use of tumor markers
Describe the initial clinical evaluation, staging, and routes of disease spread (local and distant)
Summarize potential treatment modalities, including optimum beam and radiation sources, volume and dose calculations, and fractionation.
Discuss follow-up treatment and evaluation, patterns of failure, and normal tissue effects.
Discuss multimodality therapies, including sequence, interactions, and specific agents.
Describe brachytherapy applications and issues for all disease sites
Outline the use of palliative care for brain, hepatic, and skeletal lesions, plus various obstructive scenarios
Implement a basic program of ethics, patient safety, and quality assurance in clinical practice