Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• After completion of this course the student will be able to:
• 1. Apply the principles of radiation protection to clinical practice.
• 2. Apply safe, ethical, and legal practices.
• 3. Assume primary role interacting with the radiation oncologist and Medical Physicist for all treatment planning activities.
• 4. Practice creating and evaluating complex Special Brachytherapy treatment plans.
• 5. Practice creating and evaluating complex Special Casework treatment plans
• 6. 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.
• 7. Develop and analyzes a Low Dose Rate (LDR) permanent implant brachytherapy plan.
• 8. Develop and analyzes a Low Dose Rate (LDR) Tandem and Ovoid (T & O) brachytherapy plan.
• 9. Develop and analyzes a High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy plans for cervix, bronchus, and prostate.
• 10. Develop and analyzes a High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy plan utilizing the SAVI? (strut adjusted volume implant) technique.
• 11. Develop and analyzes a High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy plan utilizing the Mammosite? technique.