Teaching Programs

Residency Training/Curriculum

• Provide the Resident with supervised patient contact and comprehensive teaching in order to achieve proficient, thoughtful, compassionate and high quality care in an environment that encourages practice-based learning and improvement.
  
  
• Encourages development of interpersonal and communication skills that enhance professional interaction with the broad scope of specialists, referring physicians or other professionals related to managing the patient's care.
  
  

• Provide the Resident with training in state-of-the-art Radiation Oncology, Physics and Biology to enhance medical knowledge and through which professional expertise can be attained.
  
  
• Utilize opportunities in multi-disciplinary conferences for the Resident to present patient cases in an open forum for critical review, discussion and resolution.
  
  
• Train the Resident in the use of modern Radiation Therapy equipment including teletherapy, brachytherapy devices, and computer software for dosimetry, treatment planning and total patient management.
  
  

• Organize clinical research opportunities for the Resident through participation in approved clinical trials, development of Phase I/II clinical trials and/or review and presentation/publication of retrospective analyses of patient data.
  
  

Dosimtery Training