Survey Results concerning the 3rd GI-CORE Summer Schoolfor Medical Physics 201631 August, 2016
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The 3rd GI-CoRE Summer School for Medial Physics accepted 19 participants in total. In
comparison to the participants in the past years, more diverse range of international students gatheredfrom across the world for this year: Bangladesh, South Korea, China, Nepal, Ghana, Thailand,Vietnam, Germany, Nigeria, Pakistan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Latvia, Syria and Japan. Most of theparticipants successfully completed the course without any absence and were awarded a completion
certificate on the last day of the course. 18 participants out of 19 answered the survey. They provided
us with positive feedback in general but at the same time there were some areas for potential
improvement with the summer school identified in the responses. Please find specific details from thegraphs and comments below.

1. Source of Information (Multiple answers allowed)
How did you learn about that GI-CoRE Summer School was recruiting participants?

Supervisor at myuniversity
Researcher's
recommendation

2

2

3

1

Mailing list1Website

11

Through my friendor acquaintanceOther

2．Lecture, Practical Training and Booklet

Quality of lectures
Very
Satisfactory
Satisfactory

27
9

Fair
Disappointing
Very
Disappointing

3. Evening Session

4. Summary Assessment
Very
Satisfactory

Very Useful
13Useful
7

Satisfactory
6

Fair
7

Fair
12

Needs
improvement
Not very useful

Disappointing
Very
Disappointing

5. Free Comments from the Participants(Requests, Advice to improve the seminar, Complaints etc.)
Handouts are very nicely put together and it will be very useful summary for the future use.

Request: Please continue this training program every year.

More Practice sessions, hands-on sessions are needed.

I am really grateful for the opportunity. Thank you.

The program was well organized.

I’d like to suggest adding a radiation biology lecture, and a discussion section between students andparticipants to exchange ideas the future of radiation therapy practice and research.

Really want to congratulate the organizers for such a successful training course. It has improved myknowledge and understanding in the physics of proton therapy. I will share the knowledge acquired
here with my colleague physicist back home.

It’s great to have evening session on the first day.

Strongly focus on any troubles that how to establish and implement some new technologies in toclinical workflow, especially for any developing countries in the safety way.

6. Most Impressive LectureWell organized sessions and practical session is very usefulIntroduction of therapeutic radiations with matterAll of them!

Dr. Yi Cui - I’m very impressed with the idea of Radiomics. It was my first time to know about Radiomics.

All the lectures were impressive except for the Monte-Carlo lectures which were too advanced for me.
The Monte-Carlo lectures can be made simpler especially for beginners.

Prof. Kikuo Umegaki’s lecture, because it had summarized the details of the success story ofcollaboration between all people who built the Proton Center, starting from Prof. Shirato’s theory of
RTRT, ending with the future steps.

SBRT and IGRTFour-dimensional radiation oncology and IEC protocols

Everything concerning the cell survival/reasons for multitrack beam needs (α/β….)

**Overview of Radiation Therapy by Prof. Hiroki Shirato**Treatment Planning for Radiation Therapy by Prof. Lei Xing

*Treatment Machine for Particle Therapy by Dr. Takahiro Yamada*Practical Training-3: by Dr. Taeko Matsuura

**SBRT and IGRT by Prof. Masayori Ishikawa

Monte Carlo simulations in photon therapy applications

Introduction to Big Data and RadiomicsTreatment Machines for Particle therapyThe lecture from Masahiro Mizuta was very impressive and I was happy to listen the mathematical
approach from mathematician

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The clinical lecture from Taeko Matsuura was also helpful for me. It is good to see the planning
procedure step by stepVery difficult selecting the most impressive lecture, since they were all impressive and well understoodTreatment Planning for Radiation Therapy

SBRT/IGRT

4D Radiation oncology and IEC protocols

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Gated spot scanning proton beam therapy with real-time tumor trackingIntroduction to Big data and Radiomics

Practical Training: Treatment Planning

On Wednesday 24 August, Proton Therapy all lectures

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From my opinion the most impressive lecture was overview of Radiation Therapy by Hiroki Shirato.

A lot of new trends information were convert in all presentations

Quality of all presentation was impressiveTreatment Planning for Radiation Therapy