• The main knowledge reference structures for the educational activities of ESRO are the ESTRO Core Curricula.
• It is the responsibility of ESRO to make sure that the ESTRO educational programme covers these curricula comprehensively with appropriate educational activities.
• The Core Curricula are updated on a regular basis. Revisions of the curricula are a joint responsibility of ESTRO, UEMS, ESRO and the National Societies for Radiation Oncology in Europe.
• Different forms of teaching and learning are applied in the educational activities of ESRO such as up front lectures, case discussions, literature discussion, interactive group work, tutorials, hands-on sessions, visits to RT departments, instructions by companies.
• All educational activities organised by ESRO are continuously monitored through the course evaluation forms completed by the participants and the course examinations. The continuous evaluation of participants’ opinions and the examination results is carried out by the course director in cooperation with the respective teaching course faculty and is also communicated to the ETC through its manager.
• ESRO aims to further develop teaching methodology by translating the successful experience of “ESTRO teaching” through charismatic teachers, interactive courses, cultural diversity and comprehensive teaching material into recommendations for appropriate teaching (“didactics”).

Good Educational Practice

The educational practice aims at providing the participant with:

• tools to comprehensively evaluate different sources of knowledge
• methods appropriate to judge available traditional and new knowledge on sound scientific grounds
• an attitude and behaviour that enables risk adapted, indivualised, radio-oncology decisions
• a comprehensive knowledge based on the evidence available in the different fields of radiotherapy and oncology, as defined by the European Curricula
• appropriate tools for basic and advanced treatment in radiotherapy and oncology