Session

Overview: The interdisciplinary education session will consist of two invited presentations and two of the highest ranked proffered papers within the category of education in radiation oncology. In this session we will discuss how to raise the bar for educating current and future generations of radiation oncology professionals and how we can foster these changes. We will examine conceptual and scholarly frameworks for education, consider competencies outside standard technical/clinical skills, look at novel learning methods and focus on enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration. These principles will be highlighted by examples of international activity in collaborative radiation oncology education groups and extensive work in the area of expert medical physicists’ training in Europe. The session will showcase a newly launched initiative to raise the bar for training and optimising the treatment of cervical cancer in countries with limited resources.