3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 8020739INR 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
-
15 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
150 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
The students will be able to understand and be able to apply the technology, the functioning and operation of different techniques in modern radiotherapy, with extra attention towards appropriate quality assurance and safety procedures and risk assessment.
The following techniques will be covered in detail:
Image-guided radiotherapy (volmetric imaging, motion management and margins)
3D-conformal radiotherapy and (rational) intensity-modulated radiotherapy
Stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiotherapy
Total body irradiation and total electron skin bath
Brachytherapy
Particle therapy
Quality assurance and quality control in radiotherapy, safety procedures and risk assessment
- Course material
- Course text (Required) : Advanced technology in Radiotherapy
- Additional info
For further information please contact Thierry.Gevaert@uzbrussel.be
- Learning Outcomes
-
Algemene competenties
Inhoud wordt later aangevuld door prof. Verellen.
For further information please contact Dirk.Verellen@vub.ac.be.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Examen
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: Inhoud wordt later aangevuld door prof. Verellen.
For further information please contact Dirk.Verellen@vub.ac.be.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Oral exam with written preparation, article reviews.
- 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