On-site Courses
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On-Site Course Offerings
Our unique on-site CME course offerings provide the opportunity to acquire the skills, knowledge and strategies that will help radiation medicine professionals successfully apply and implement contemporary treatment techniques and approaches into their own radiotherapy practice. Specific course types, descriptions and sample programs can be found below.
Upcoming Course Dates
Liver, Pancreas and Upper GI Oligometastases Imaging and SBRT
Date: April 18-20, 2024
Course Leaders: Drs. Jelena Lukovic, MD, Ali Hosni, MD & Laura Dawson, MD
Guest Faculty: Dr. Cihan Gani, MD
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has been proven to be an effective tool in the management of both primary liver cancer (HCC) and metastatic liver, pancreas and other oligometastatic lesions. This course is a 2.5-day immersive educational program where experts will guide participants through the relevant clinical, pathologic, radiobiological, oncologic and technological principles that guide the assessment, decision-making and treatment of these patients using a combination of lectures, discussions and hands on experiences.
**The course is currently planned for an “in person” delivery. We will continue to monitor the situation and if necessary, may convert the course to a virtual or hybrid model.
Audience: All radiation medicine professionals
Course Fees:
Registration: $3,000 CAD
Early Bird Registration: $2,550 CAD
(Early Bird rate applies for registrations on or before March 18, 2024)
Alumni Registration: $2,400 CAD
Trainee Registration: $400 CAD
Please contact aep@uhn.ca to find out how to register.
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Accelerator Technology Education Course
Date: This course will include 2 sections.
1. Virtual: October 9 & 16, 2024 (Wednesdays, 2 – 5 PM each day)
2. In-person: October 22-24, 2024 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Course Leaders: Bernard Norrlinger & Patricia Lindsay
The Accelerator Technology Education Course (ATec) is targeted at medical physics trainees, physics associates, accelerator services personnel, regulatory and standards body personnel interested in enhancing their understanding of linear accelerator technology. This immersive course will examine the theory, functionality, and basic service principles of linear accelerators in a multidisciplinary forum emphasizing the clinical relevance of all components of linac servicing – from beam tuning, troubleshooting imaging systems and safety issues related to accelerator servicing.
Audience: Medical physics trainees, physics associates, accelerator services personnel, regulatory and standards body personnel
Course Fees: $1,300 CAD
Please contact aep@uhn.ca to find out how to register.
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International Radiation Therapy Undergraduate Training Academy (IRTUTA)
Date: May 27-31, 2024
This radiation therapist international experience is constructed to provide an interprofessional learning environment for undergraduate/newly qualified radiation therapists to acquire the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to implement both fundamental and innovative radiotherapy principles into clinical practice.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this program, participants should be able to:
– Demonstrate professional attitude appropriate to a newly qualified RTT in terms of effective communication with the wider multidisciplinary team in radiation therapy
– Critically evaluate their own scope of practice through the process of reflection which they will demonstrate by interactive discussions with clinical staff at PM.
– Effectively discuss current trends in radiation therapy including research opportunities in radiation therapist practice and related technical radiation therapy fields.
Audience:
– Undergraduate radiation therapists who are interested in learning the radiation therapist scope of practice at PM. Ideally, but not necessarily, they should be at the final year of the BSc course.
– Newly qualified radiation therapists who are interested in extending their scope of practice through this international experience program.
Course Fees:
Registration: $500 CAD
The 2024 IRTUTA course is at full capacity and no longer accepting registrations. Please contact aep@uhn.ca to find out how to register for the 2025 course.
“The course was extremely well organized, technologies facilities were excellent.
Thank you for an excellent program” – Liver SBRT April 2016
“The multiprofessional material gave me a clear picture of what a patient endures,
and the reasoning for medical decisions” – Soft Tissue Sarcoma: The Toronto System October 2017
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Accreditation
Accreditation is an important component of our on-site CME course offerings. We apply for credits from the following regulatory bodies when applicable to a given course offering. The number of credits awarded varies, please contact us directly for specific credits awarded.
Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (CAMRT)
Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada
Medical Dosimetrist Certification Board (MDCB)
Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs Inc. (CAMPEP)
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On-Site Course Descriptions
Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
Our IGRT/SBRT course offerings continue to evolve in response to changing technology, applications, and evidence-based practice. We offer foundations as well as disease site-specific courses and continue to develop new courses each year, including: Liver SBRT, Lung SBRT, Head and Neck IM/IGRT, Paraspinal SBRT, CNS, SBRT for Oligometastases, and Sarcoma. These more focused courses still cover the fundamental principles of IGRT/SBRT, but do so within the unique context of their particular disease site.
Quality & Safety in Radiation Therapy (QSRT)
This course aims to expose learners to the overarching principles that comprise a program-wide approach to quality and safety and proposes a variety of tools and approaches that learners immediately experience to help advance their own practice along the quality continuum and provide insights to be brought back to their local program.
Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
Over the past decade, Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) has emerged as the standard of treatment for the delivery of the safest and most effective radiation therapy. It exploits technologies that minimize treatment side effects, while giving definitive radiation doses to diseased tissue. The course was developed to share a unique interprofessional approach to patient treatment and program development to give professionals an opportunity to enhance their knowledge and skills in this area.
Accelerator Technology (ATec)
The ATec Education Course is developed to address the training needs of all staff responsible for the use and maintenance of medical accelerators, including medical physics trainees, physics associates, accelerator service personnel, and regulatory and standards body personnel. The emphasis of the course is on the practical aspects of maintaining Linacs, through a combination of lectures and hands-on labs.
Registration Policies
On-Site Registration Policies
Confirmation of registration will be provided upon receipt of payment. DO NOT book non-refundable travel until your registration has been confirmed.
Registrant Cancellation: Written notification of cancellation is required at least ten business days prior to the course start date. If notification is received by this time a refund will be issued, minus a 15% administration fee. Substitutions and transfer of registration to a future course are also permitted. No refund will be issued if cancellation is received fewer than ten business days before the course start date.
Course Cancellation: If a course is canceled, the Accelerated Education Program will refund the course registration fee in full but is not responsible for travel, accommodation, or other expenses incurred by the participant. The AEP assumes no liability for changes in course content or faculty.
Early-bird Discount: The AEP offers a 15% early-bird discount* to registrations completed four weeks or more prior to a course start date.
Alumni Discount: The AEP offers a 20% discount* to University of Toronto Department of Radiation Oncology Alumni.
Trainee Pricing: Trainee pricing is available on a course by course basis. Trainee pricing is not applicable to courses marked with an asterisk.
Group Discount: If you are interested in attending one of our on-site courses with colleagues from your institution please contact us directly before registering as you may be eligible to receive our group discount rate.
*Discounts are only applicable to general registration pricing. Discount may not be applied to trainee pricing. Discounts cannot be combined.
These policies are subject to change without notice.