• To define the gaps in radiotherapy content and encourage a greater focus on radiotherapy in the existing national education programmes and increase the standard of education for RTTs
• To equip RTTs with the skills necessary to design, organise, deliver, and evaluate educational initiatives in their own language to RTTs in their own country
• To encourage RTTs to set up a regional or national network (e.g., working parties, regional or national groups/society).
• To raise the benefits of ESTRO membership to RTTs in your country and to increase RTT membership and participation

• Applications are accepted per country
• Three names together with a short description of the possible topics of the short courses you would consider suitable together with the potential target audience (ten lines maximum) should be provided
• Where IAEA support is applicable, the IAEA will make the country selection.

Train the RTT Trainers (5 days)

The programme is available here

During this first week there will be introductory lectures on how to design, organise, deliver and evaluate a course, supported by practical sessions. At the end of the preparatory course, it is expected that participants will have made progress:

• An outline programme, an evaluation procedure, a checklist and timetable of tasks for the first course and identified potential lecturers

• Commenced the preparation of the topic that they will teach, have gained some skills in powerpoint presentation and started to prepare the outline of a proposed first lecture, developed a support network and identified a liaison person in their national education institute
• Established how to communicate regularly with the faculty, highlighting any difficulties that might be encountered.

First local course (3 days – between January 2023 and October 2023)

To deliver and evaluate the first local course. One or two of the international faculty will attend and give limited contribution if appropriate.

The consolidation course (3 days – November 2023)

To evaluate the first course delivered, plan for the next two courses and indicate how the education element will be sustained.

Interim support for participants

Interim support to the participants will be provided through e-learning via an online system.

Second and third course will be delivered between January and November 2023.

Prerequisites

Before commencing this course participants should:

• Be familiar with the education programme and involved personnel in their country
• Read the ESTRO Core Curriculum (CC) and benchmarking for RTTs and critique the content with respect to their own education programme
• Based on the evaluation of the CC, the benchmarking document and the national/local education programme define possible topics for ROADMAP their short courses.

Teaching Methods

• 8 hours of lectures
• 16 hours of assisted preparation
• 5 hours of feedback sessions
• 4 hours of discussion.

Methods of Assessment

Evaluation form.

Affiliations

NH DANUBE CITY,

Wagramer Strasse 21,

1220 Wien

Membership

ESTRO members can order products at substantially reduced prices. To benefit from the member registration rate, you must subscribe for the ESTRO membership 2023 BEFORE registering to the course. To become an ESTRO member, benefit from the member registration rate and discover the many other member advantages, please visit the membership page.

Fees

* Members with specialty RadiationTherapist (RTT) may register at the In-Training fee

Early rates are applied up to three months before the starting date of the course.

Late rates are applied three months before the starting date of the course.

The fee includes the course material, coffees, lunches, and the social event.

Advance registration & payment are required.

Since the number of participants is limited, late registrants are advised to contact the ESTRO office before payment, to inquire about availability of places. Access to homework and/or course material will become available upon receipt of full payment.

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Insurance and cancellation

ESTRO does not accept liability for individual medical, travel or personal accidents or incidents. Participants are strongly advised to take out their own personal insurance policies.   

For any cancellation made by the course or workshop participant, ESTRO School Events Cancellation Policy will be followed and all stated penalty fees will be applied. 

In the unlikely event that ESTRO would need to cancel the event, ESTRO will reimburse the participants in full for the registration fee. ESTRO will not refund any travel and accommodation expenses.

Reduced fees

Members from emerging countries may register at a preferential rate of 350 Euro. Emerging country fee applies to individuals from low-income and lower-middle-income economies according to the World Bank listing here.

Additionally, all specialties from the following countries can benefit from this preferential rate: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine.  In addition, medical physicists from Cyprus can email education@estro.org to apply for this fee.

The preferential rate of 350 Euro is granted automatically when you click on the  BOOK NOW  button and the three conditions below are met:

1. Only ESTRO members for 2023 are eligible (please make sure your 2023 membership is in order before you click on the BOOK NOW  button)
2. Only one course per person per year can be subsidized by ESTRO
3. Sponsored candidates are not entitled to reduced fees (the invoicing address has to be the one of the participant)  

 Please note:

• We can only guarantee a certain number of reduced fees per course
• Application deadlines are the same as early registration fees (3 months before the course date).