discurso de encerramento - estro activities in brief

8/7/2019 Discurso de Encerramento - ESTRO Activities in Brief

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ESTRO

activities in brief !


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Fostering radiation Oncology

- Cancer = first cause of death

- Major increase in cancer rate by 2030

- Radiation Oncology is cost effective, an organ preserving

approach and the 2nd contributor in the curative treatment of

cancer

- Continuous progresses are seen in technology, medical physics,

biology and imaging for RO : educational needs


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Dissemination

of science

ESTRO serves its members and the oncology community through :

ESTRO 2010

Education

ESTRO

School

R&O

Conferences

Organisation / Governance and Economics

StandardsFacilitating

Research(EU project)

Community

New letter

website

Practice

CareerSupport TTG

Public

Policy Patient

Lobbying


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Dissemination

ofthe up-to-datescientific research

Innovative international platforms

to share expertise, best practices

and disseminate to a wider audience


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ESTRO

Annual

Meeting

a key aspect

- > 5000

attendees

- Symposia with

internationalsocieties

- 1900 abstracts

- Major platformfor randomized

trials


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ESTRO as a strong partner in MultidisciplinaryConferences

EMUC with EAU and ESMOProstate

and more up coming

Eurecca (Rectal .

Lung

Imaging

Head & neck


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A strong

Partner in

ECCO-ESMO

Meeting

In partnership with

In partnership with

The ESTRO

Annual

meeting


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Disseminationof the up-to-datescientific research

IF = 4.3

Priority =

keep increasing

the IF


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Education

A brand of excellence

in post-graduate radiation oncology

education and training


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ESTRO SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

1. EDUCATIONAL OFFER

- Traditional Live courses- Educational activities at congresses- Online education

EAGLE, FALCON, videos

2. MOBILITY ESTRO TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER GRANTS

3. MAINTENANCE AND FURTHERIMPROVEMENT OF THEQUALITY AND LEVEL OF THE EUROPEAN EDUCATION

AND TRAINING

4. ESTRO FELLOW


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20

25

30

LIVE ESTRO COURSES 1985 - 2010

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5

10

15

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9

8

5

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9

8

9

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9

9

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9

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31 teaching courses in Europe

and 6 outside

3000 participants per year

200 teachers

Richard Poetter Chair ETC

Christine Verfaillie - Manager School


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TREND: GROWING AND CONTINUOUSLYIMPROVING COLLABORATION WITH OTHER

ONCOLOGY SOCIETIES


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TREND: GROWING AND CONTINUOUSLYIMPROVING COLLABORATION WITH OTHERNATIONAL RT SOCIETIES

In EUROPE

NL: trainee clinicians and medical physicists are obliged to participate to ESTRO courses

DK: clinicians and medical physicists get equal support for participation in national andinternational/ESTRO courses

SEOR: 2 ESTRO courses integrated in the Spanish national programme for the next 3 years

Slovenia: ESTRO agreed to organise basic courses in Slovenia in the next years C&E Europe: 5 ESTRO courses/year since 2005 with special registration fees

Russia: 1 ESTRO course/year since 2002 with special registration fees

OUTSIDE EUROPE

5 MoUs concluded with ALATRO, AROI, CSTRO, M East, SEAROG

At ESTRO 29, a first meeting is planned with representatives from the different regions

International Education and Training Committee (I-ETC)

Aim: to give the floor to the regions outside Europe, as a basis for brainstorming on future

collaboration and the development of possible new educational concepts


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Number of participants from Spain/Portugal toESTRO teaching courses in the last 3 years

60

80

100

0

20

40

1 2 3

Srie1

Integration of 2 ESTRO courses within the Spanish

national education programme

2007 2008 2009


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EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES at CONGRESSES

EBCC 7: Pre-conference workshop (300 participants)Current Clinical Issues in Breast Cancer

ESTR0 29: 4 re-meetin courses xx artici antsFunctional imaging in TP, ART, Patient safety, TumourMicroenvironment

ESTRO 29: 3 Interactive hands-on contouring workshops (180 participants)

Monday 13/09/2010: Lung Cancer

Tuesday 14/09/2010: Rectal Cancer

Wednesday 15/09/2010: H&N Cancer


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ONLINE EDUCATION

Pilot online course on rectal cancer: Nov 2009 - March 2010

Fine tuning of the technical solutions to improve the quality of thevirtual EAGLE courses integrated since the pilot course:

A different webcasting system to present the lectures online

Web-conferencin for the virtual meetin s between tutors and artici ants New contouring software for the contouring exercises in EAGLE

Next:

2nd virtual EAGLE rectal cancer course: Nov 2010 March 2011.

Integration of webcastings from ESTRO meetings in the EAGLE library

Development of more EAGLE courses (Breast and H&N)


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ONLINE EDUCATION : A multi-functional platform for

contouring & delineation

FALCON (Fellowship in Anatomic deLineation and CONtouring).

The FALCON Task force (Chair V Valentini)

A very performing online contouring software, EduCase.

FALCON is aimed to be multifunctional and allows ONLINE :

Participation to virtual delineation workshops

To validate the daily contouring practice online by comparing this with the delineation byexperts and the EST RO guidelines.

Access to a database of expert delineations and guidelines.

Links to the EAGLE library for e-lessons on delineation related topics. access to EAGLE courses with integrated online delineation exercises.


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3. MAINTENANCE AND FURTHER IMPROVEMENT OF THEQUALITY AND LEVEL OF THE EUROPEAN EDUCATION

AND TRAINING

4. ESTRO FELLOW


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MOBILITY: ESTRO TTG for ESTRO members

Growing number of applications:

First selection round (March 2008): 8 applications received, 6 granted

Second selection round (Sept 2008): 21 applications received, 15 granted

Third selection round (March 2009): 24 applications received, 10 granted

Fourth selection round (Sept 2009): 18 applications received,12 granted

Fifth selection round (March 2010): 33 applications received,15 granted

Applicationstotal

104 Applicationssuccessful

58

Clinicians 42 Clinicians 24

Physicists 43 Physicists 24

Biologists 11 Biologists 5

RTT 8 RTT 5


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AND TRAINING

4. ESTRO FELLOW


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MAINTENANCE & INCREASE OF QUALITY OF THE ESTROEDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME & TRAINING IN EUROPE

By using existing QA tools such as:

ACOE accreditation for all courses

Online MCQs for most ESTRO courses

Evaluation of all courses by the course participants

Networking with course directors at annual course directors meeting


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MAINTENANCE & INCREASE OF QUALITY OF THE ESTROEDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME & TRAINING IN EUROPE

Through the development of new QA tools

Revision of the European Core Curricula3rd ed CC for radiation oncologists endorsed by all European countries

2nd ed CC for medical physicists to be finalised in October 2010

3rd

ed CC for RTT to be finalised b the ESTRO Anniversar meetin

Manual for setting up courses aimed at course directors & teachers, course coordinators,local organisers and companies 5available on the ESTRO web site)

Liaison Persons to follow up the development of a number of ESTRO courses and liaisebetween the course directors and ETC

Guidelines for evaluation of the courses by the course faculties

Biennial teachers retreat for all course teachers the first retreat is planned in London2011, linked to the ESTRO Anniversary meeting


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AND TRAINING

4. ESTRO FELLOW


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The ESTRO FELLOW


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The ESTRO FELLOW

ESTRO FELLOW credits policy and application form availableon the website: www.estro-education.org/estrofellows


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Dissemination

of science

Membership

ESTRO 2013

Health Economic

Education

ESRO

R&O

Conferences

Organisation / Governance and Economics

RO Guidelines

Multidiscip. Guidelines

Recommendations

Core curriculum

Facilitating

Research

CommunityPracticeCareer

Support TTG

Public

Policy Patient

Lobbying


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ESTRO recommendations for the CoreCurriculum in Radiation oncology

The European Core Curricula (CC) was revised in 2010(J Eriksen, JW Leer, S Magrini & C Verfaillie)

For Radiation Oncology, physicists, and technicians


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Leading Radiation Oncology guidelines

A Task force has been

created (V. Khoo)

1) Consolidate a uniform platform for guidelines within ESTRO


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Major role in multidisciplinary guidelines as standards of

cancer care in Europe

1) Consolidate a uniform platform for guidelines within ESTRO

2) Integration in a global European multidisciplinary approach


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Task force on

Health Economy for Radiation Oncology

= HERO (C Grau)

New technologies etcTool for lobbying


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Links with

other societies


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ESTRO

ESMO

ESSO

EONS SIOPE

EACR

+ 18 others

EAU, EORTC

ECCO Foundingmembers

European

National RO societies

Authorities

EU

Lobbying

Increase ESTRO integration

in the environment

Public

Patients

Companies& cooporate

members

RO

Outside Europe

Societies

+ ASTRO, CSTRO, JASTRO,

ALATRO, CARO etc


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Extending ESTROs influence by increasing

membership

- Community of over 5,000 professionals

- 15-20% penetration rate among specialists

Actions :

- Increase the membership (target 8000 in 5 y.)

- Link the membership to ESTRO activities (ESTRO fellow)

- Structure and increase coorporate membership

- Increase thejoint membership on the model of CARO

(Canadian Society )


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Foster a more favorable

environement for

Education, research and

ESTRO Cancer Foundation

ESTRO CANCER FOUNDATION


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ESTRO CANCER FOUNDATION :

an Integrated vision with ESTRO

Objectives :

- Promote RO visibility in the public

- Increase fund raising (charity, companies etc..)

Benefits :

- For members and RO specialists through travel and

exchange programs, research grants

- Support activities for young specialists


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ESTRO Conference

8-12 May 2011

London


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ESTRO Conference,London 8-12th May 2011

- Brachytherapy GEC- ESTRO meeting

- Bi-annual physics and RTT meeting

- Anniversary track :Joint with international RO societies,ASTRO, CARO, JASTRO,

, ,

- The best of RO clinical trialsin 30 years

- Strategic retreat for ESTRO teachers

- Inauguration of theESTRO Cancer Foundation

- First ESTRO Fellowship

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