Students will learn dose limits, regulations, safety procedures, shielding, and testing. They will also learn the protection roles of the radiation oncologist, radiation therapist, radiation safety officer and clinical physicist as they pertain to patients, personnel and the public. Purpose and methods of personnel monitoring and patient monitoring will be reviewed to include types of emergencies that can occur and procedures to be followed. Students will begin to gain skill in clinical procedures, interaction with patients and professional personnel as they apply didactic knowledge to the clinical aspects of radiation therapy and become familiar with various radiation therapy aspects of patient care. All student activity in this activity will be supervised by a registered radiation therapist.
Student begins to be tested on basic radiation therapy skills.
Applies knowledge from previous clinical learning experience under the supervision of a registered radiation therapist. Students are tested on intermediate clinical radiation therapy skills. 3340 Oncologic Pathology. This course introduces the concept of disease, histology, types of growth, etiology and biological behavior of neoplastic diseases. This course will cover the principles of cell response to radiation, including tissue sensitivity, survival, repair and the latent effects of irradiated tissue.