RADTX 314 - Clinical Practice IV

12 CR

Provides 40 hours per week of supervised clinical instruction, progressing through a competency-based educational sequence. Concept Integration activities will be assigned as weekly group discussions.

Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Radiation Therapy, BAS

Course Outcomes

Cognitive Domain: As part of providing treatment, students will demonstrate their ability to prioritize tasks, explain rationale for position verification and imaging procedures, differentiate between tumor lethal dose and normal tissue tolerance dose, and document treatment and care in the patient record.
Psychomotor Domain: Students will demonstrate competence performing activities by completing terminal competencies for simulation and treatment delivery procedures, constructing immobilization, beam directional and beam modification devices.
Interpersonal Domain: Students will demonstrate ongoing sensitivity and identify potential side effects in patients and report those that the patient experiences. Observe and report on specific treatments for side effect management, interact with members of the radiation therapy team in a productive manner and maintain high ethical standards.

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