ESTRO FELLOW EXAM : BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The exam is made of about 100 questions regarding  topics taught at our general teaching courses and site specific courses.

In order to help you to prepare for the exam,  the programmes  and reference material (if available) of these teaching courses mentioned below are downloadable.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

General Courses

·          Evidence-based radiation oncology: a clinical refresher course with a methodological basis

·          Modern brachytherapy techniques

·          Basic clinical radiobiology

·          Molecular oncology for the radiation oncologist   

·          Physics for clinical radiotherapy

·          Radiotherapy treatment planning, principles and practice

·          Imaging and target volume determination in radiotherapy

·          IMRT and other conformal techniques in practice

·          Image-guided radiotherapy in clinical practice

·          Radiotherapy with protons and ions

·          Combined drug-radiation treatment: biological basis, current applications and perspectives

Site specific courses

·          Multidisciplinary teaching course on lung cancer

·          Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer

·          Image-guided radiotherapy and chemotherapy in gynaecological cancer – focus on adaptive brachytherapy

·          Multidisciplinary teaching course on prostate cancer

·          Brachytherapy for prostate cancer

·          Advanced teaching course on rectal cancer

·          Multidisciplinary management of head and neck oncology