Radiation Oncology (RAD ONCOL)

Instructor(s): Harish Vasudevan, Steve Braunstein

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. On Attending-Resident paired services, students will assist with components of the Radiation Oncology care pathway, including initial patient consultation, interdisciplinary discussion, radiotherapy planning/delivery, and patient follow up.

Instructor(s): Harish Vasudevan, Steve Braunstein

Mentored by residents and faculty, students will perform H&Ps on patients under evaluation for radiation therapy (mostly cancer patients), participate in clinics, attend teaching conferences, chart rounds, and tumor boards, and have the opportunity to observe a wide variety of radiotherapeutic approaches. Students have the option of giving a 20-60 minute presentation on a topic of their choice toward the end of the rotation.

Instructor(s): Harish Vasudevan, Steve Braunstein

Students will perform H&Ps on patients under evaluation for radiation therapy (mostly cancer patients), participate in clinics, attend teaching conferences, and have the opportunity to observe a variety of radiotherapeutic approaches.

Instructor(s): Harish Vasudevan, Steve Braunstein

Students will perform clinical assessments of patients under evaluation for radiation therapy (mostly cancer patients), participate in clinics, attend teaching conferences, and have the opportunity to observe a variety of radiotherapeutic approaches.

Instructor(s): Harish Vasudevan, Steve Braunstein

Via remote distance learning and Telehealth approaches, students perform histories & physicals (H&Ps) on cancer patients, participate in discussions of treatment recommendations, attend tumor boards, teaching conferences, and clinics, and have the opportunity to learn about a wide variety of radiotherapeutic techniques.

Instructor(s): Harish Vasudevan, Steve Braunstein

Students participate in individual radiation oncology clinical or laboratory research under the close supervision of individual staff instructors.

Instructor(s): Harish Vasudevan, Steve Braunstein

Focused study and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department.

Instructor(s): Jose Ramos-Mendez

The course covers the fundamentals of how ionizing radiation affects humans: from its therapeutic use in radiotherapy to the consequences of receiving large amount of radiation doses. The course starts with the history of the discovery of radiation, its effects at microscopic scales (cells and DNA), the risk estimates of radiation, prediction of cancer in population, tumor biology, and methods to improve the effectivity of the therapeutic use of radiation in radiotherapy.

Instructor(s): Adam Cunha

The three quarters of this course series (235 A, B, and C) cover the fundamentals of the physics of radiation therapy: the physics of radiation interactions relevant to radiation therapy, the machines that produce this radiation, the measurement of radiation quantities, and dose calculation. The physics of photon, electron, proton, and ion beams, brachytherapy, and hyperthermia are covered. Monte Carlo techniques are introduced as well as the basics of machine commissioning.

Instructor(s): Adam Cunha

The three quarters of this course series (235 A, B, and C) cover the fundamentals of the physics of radiation therapy: the physics of radiation interactions relevant to radiation therapy, the machines that produce this radiation, the measurement of radiation quantities, and dose calculation. The physics of photon, electron, proton, and ion beams, brachytherapy, and hyperthermia are covered. Monte Carlo techniques are introduced as well as the basics of machine commissioning.

Instructor(s): Adam Cunha

As part of the 3-course series (RadOncol 235 A,B, and C), this course will cover fundamental concepts of radiation safety and protection with an additional focus on the various Quality Assurance tasks and processes encountered in radiation oncology clinics.

Instructor(s): Dante Capaldi, Adam Cunha

This seminar will focus on current areas of research in medical physics. Residents and students will be expected to read assigned papers critically before class and to present and discuss papers in class. Each quarter will cover different topics to stay current with the field therefore seminar my be taken more than once.