36 ECTS credits
999 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 8020741INR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester
at
a (I) Postgraduate - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st and 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy
- Department
- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy
- Educational team
- Thierry Gevaert
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
-
30 contact hours Lecture
900 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
60 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
The students learn all aspects about the responsibilities of an authorized Medical Physicist or Medical Physics Expert, including quality control, dosimetry optimization and risk assessment.
The students will be gradualyy involved in the different topics related to radiotherapy from passive observation to active participation, with the aim to be able to independently perform all the tasks required from a medical physicist in the domain radiotherapy.
The following items will be covered:
Basic dosimetry and independent dose calculation
Treatment planning and dose calculation
Warm up of treatment machines and dailty QA
Image-guidance and QA of IGRT
Special techniques: IMRT, radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiotherapy, TBI, brachytherapy
Dosimetry techniques and use of waterphantoms and detectors
QA and QC procedures
Accepatnce procedures
Monthly and yearly QA
QA of disometry equipment
QA of treatment planning systems
- Additional info
For further information please contact Thierry.Gevaert@uzbrussel.be
- Learning Outcomes
-
algemene competenties
Inhoud wordt later aangevuld.
For more information, please contact Prof. Verellen : dverelle@vub.ac.be
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- andere
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: Inhoud wordt later aangevuld.
For more information, please contact Prof. Verellen : dverelle@vub.ac.be
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Evaluation sheet (both self evaluation and evaluation by promotor) and personal port folio.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Postgraduate Certificate Expert in Medical Physics: Standaard traject