RADTX 414 - Clinical Practice VIII

• Cognitive Domain: As part of providing treatment, students will demonstrate their understanding by evaluating custom treatment plans, appraising treatment techniques and procedures associated with various neoplastic diseases. They will assess critical aspects of treatment set up, imaging and delivery. Students will demonstrate clinical competence by completing all program requirements, including clinical hours, competencies, and senior rotations.
• Psychomotor Domain: Students will demonstrate competence performing activities such as patient positioning, imaging procedures, equipment operation and treatment delivery, detecting equipment malfunctions and selecting appropriate action. Students will employ safe decision making skillsand take appropriate action when clinical problems occur.
• Interpersonal Domain: Students will demonstrate ongoing sensitivity and compassion for each patient and interact with members of the radiation therapy team and related departments in a positive and productive manner. They will provide radiation therapy services by contributing as an essential member of the radiation oncology treatment team through provision of total quality care of each patient undergoing a prescribed course of treatment. Students will implement strategies that assure professional development at a level of clinical practice consistent with high ethical standards. Students will maintain composure and take decisive action under stress and when clinical problems occur, and participate in collaborative departmental activities such as morning huddle, chart rounds and tumor boards.

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