Swansea University are one of the only Medical Physics Practitioner Training Programme (PTP) courses in the UK. As part of their clinical training, Summative Case-Based Discussions (CBD) are delivered by clinical mentors to assess the student’s clinical knowledge and understanding of radiotherapy treatment planning. For these CBDs, an anonymised clinical case is reviewed by the student and then presented to the academic faculty. Student-created treatment plans are central to this assessment, where they are presented using VERT.
By bringing some CBD assessments back into the University, we can ensure assessment standards remain high whilst reducing the clinical pressures for our placement partners. VERT is the only system to simulate radiotherapy environments in this way, with functionality that supports critical discussion and evaluation of clinical scenarios.
Watch the presentation from the Society for Medical Simulation in Europe (SESAM) annual conference meeting in Seville, Spain:
Dan Murray BSc.(Hons)
Lecturer, BSc (Hons) Healthcare Science (Radiotherapy Physics) – Swansea University
MR-Linac Dosimetrist – GenesisCare UK/Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Joseph Purden MSc.(Hons)
Programme Director, BSc (Hons) Healthcare Science (Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Physics and Radiotherapy Physics) – Swansea University