DOSM 402 Clinical Education II • 8 Cr.

Description

Supervised clinical education in medical dosimetry that progresses through a competency-based educational sequence. Course totals 264 hours. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the program.

Outcomes

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Apply the principles of radiation protection to clinical practice.
• Apply safe, ethical, and legal practices.
• Import MRI and PET images into the treatment planning system (TPS).
• Apply registration and fusion techniques to image data sets.
• Create expansions and contractions of structures using automatic tools.
• Construct 3D conformal beam arrangements.
• Design field shaping using automatic field margins
• Identify appropriate placement of calculation points in treatment plan.
• Perform dose calculation.
• Evaluate a computerized treatment plan against achievement of the planning directive.
• Compare multiple plans against the planning directive using plan comparison tools.
• Develop and analyzes a 3D conformal treatment plan.