Curriculum Components

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Curriculum Components

• The Curriculum comprises
• The curriculum documents
• The training program
• What do trainees need to do and know?
• How and when do trainees achieve the above?

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Curriculum Documents

• 3 main curriculum documents
• Curriculum document
• for everyone
• - Phase 1 Assessment Toolkit for supervisors
• Learning Portfolio
• for trainees

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Curriculum Whats in it?

• Expression of required skills and knowledge for a
  practising radiation oncologist at the point of
  qualification
• Represents the values and philosophies of our
  discipline as determined by US
• Input from many Fellows as well as educational
  experts
• Complies with external recommendations for good
  specialist training and adult education

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Curriculum Structure

• Based on CanMEDS roles
• Includes roles of
• Medical Expert
• Communicator
• Collaborator
• Manager
• Health Advocate
• Scholar
• Professional

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Overview of Layout

• Medical Expert role
• Oncology Sciences
• ROCKSS
• Medical Expert Supplements
• Other 6 roles
• Each role organised into
• Learning outcomes
• Learning opportunities

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Other principles of layout

• Content organised into
• Foundation
• Phase 1
• Phase 2
• Link with training program structure
• Outcomes designated detailed or general
  independent or supervised
• Tumour site topics divided into major or lesser
  focus

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Curriculum document

• Description of medical expert role
• 1. Oncology sciences syllabi
• Radiation oncology physics
• Radiation and cancer biology
• Anatomy
• Pathology
• NB. Phase 1 AND Phase 2
• components

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Curriculum Document

• 2. ROCKSS Radiation Oncology Central
  Knowledge and Skills Summary
• Statement of all the core learning outcomes
• Perhaps THE most important part of the document
• Overlaps with other roles
• You must have ROCKSS in your head !!

ROCKSS
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Curriculum Document

• MES Medical Expert Supplements
• Listed in the medical expert topic table
• ARE NOT STAND
• ALONE STATEMENTS
• Are to be used in conjunction with
• ROCKSS and oncology
• Science syllabi

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Principles of training program

• Learning should be contextualised
• Continuous learning from beginning to end across
  all subjects/roles
• Complexity of tasks and skills develop through
  training
• Integration between and within subjects Provides
  structure for learning and teaching
• Learning is most effective through practical
  experience, repetition, reflection and feedback

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Structure of training program