- Daily Course Evaluation
- Overall and Administration Evaluation
Regional Training Course on Quality Management in Radiotherapy- 2nd Edition
Date: | May 3, 2021 – May 14, 2021 |
Location: | Virtual Event |
Application Deadline for Nominee(s) of Invited IAEA Member States: March 5, 2021
Purpose
The purpose of this virtual training course is to present the elements of a quality management program to an audience of teams from every centre integrated by a Radiation Oncologist, a Medical Physicist and a Radiotherapy Technologist.
Scope and Nature
The outline of the course is as follow:
- Introduction to the course: the need for integrated, comprehensive quality management in radiotherapy
- What is quality in radiotherapy?
- The differences between quality management, quality assurance and quality control
- The management of quality: quality management systems (with a focus on ISO9001 standard)
- The radiotherapy process workflow
- Human resources (RTTs, radiation oncologists and medical physicists):
- Qualifications: adequate education, training and recognition of all the professional involved [with reference to IAEA guidelines, e.g. International BSS, Human Health Series 25 for medical physicists]
- Roles and responsibilities of RTTs, radiation oncologists and medical physicists
- Continuous Professional Development Staffing [with reference to IAEA documents: Human Health Report 13 and 15]
- Infrastructure, equipment and maintenance:
- Equipment
- Space
- Selection and purchase of equipment
- Acceptance, commissioning and routine quality checks and relevant documentation and protocols
- Maintenance and repair
- Financial resources
- Operational budget
- Investment
- Quality and radiation protection
- Quality and accident prevention
- Policies and procedures
- Documentation management: from quality policy to checklists and records
- Monitoring and continuous improvement in Quality Management
- Quality management committee
- Radiation protection committee
- Continuous quality improvement
- Chart rounds
- Patient clinic
- Peer review
- Morbidity and mortality
- Incidents and accidents reporting
- Quality Controls
- Dosimetry
- Prescription
- Simulation and tumor delineation
- Data transfer
- The plan
- Delivery
- End of treatment and consultation
- Treatment equipment
- QA equipment
- Quality audits, including the IAEA's QUATRO methodology
- Quality Certifications
- The overall policy of the center towards quality management