Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• 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 Brachytherapy treatment plans.
• Practice creating and evaluating complex Special Casework treatment plans
• 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 analyzes a Low Dose Rate (LDR) permanent implant brachytherapy plan.
• Develop and analyzes a Low Dose Rate (LDR) Tandem and Ovoid (T & O) brachytherapy plan.
• Develop and analyzes a High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy plans for cervix, bronchus, and prostate.
• Develop and analyzes a High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy plan utilizing the SAVI? (strut adjusted volume implant) technique.
• Develop and analyzes a High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy plan utilizing the Mammosite? technique.