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DOSM 405 - Clinical Education V


8 CR

Supervised clinical education in medical dosimetry that progresses through a competency-based educational sequence. Course totals 264 hours.

Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the program.

Course Outcomes
  • Apply the principles of radiation protection to clinical practice.
  • Apply safe, ethical, and legal practices.
  • Assume primary role interacting with the radiation oncologist and Medical Physicist for all treatment planning activities.
  • Practice creating and evaluating complex Special casework treatment plans. 
  •  Evaluate Special casework treatment plans against achievement of the planning directive.
  • Assume primary role in development of set-up, plan verification, importation of plan into the record and verify system, and discussions of plan with radiation oncology staff.
  • Develop and analyze a chest wall treatment plan utilizing the reverse hockey stick planning technique.
  • Develop and analyze a complex composite treatment plan incorporating previously treated radiation fields and current treatment fields.
  • Develop and analyze a complex treatment plan demonstrating abutting treatment fields.
  • Develop and analyze a Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) treatment plan.
  • Develop and analyze a 4D treatment plan


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