DOSM 402 - Clinical Education II

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.
Import MRI and PET images into the treatment planning system (TPS).
Apply registration and fusion techniques to image data sets.
Create expansions and contractions of structures using automatic tools.
Construct 3D conformal beam arrangements.
Design field shaping using automatic field margins
Identify appropriate placement of calculation points in treatment plan.
Perform dose calculation.
Evaluate a computerized treatment plan against achievement of the planning directive.
Compare multiple plans against the planning directive using plan comparison tools.
Develop and analyzes a 3D conformal treatment plan.

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