DOS 531: Clinical Oncology
Course Description
This course was designed to give all the specifics on numerous disease sites, their usual treatment plans, and over all patient care during treatment.
Course Assessment:
This course was guided by a series of lectures, and directed readings. We used the website Radiotherap-e.com to help us see the CTVs of the diseases we were studying and their critical structures and lymph nodes that correspond to them. There were two discussion topics in which students posted and learned from one and other. Testing of the knowledge gained through the course was done through weekly quizzes. There was also a Head and Neck assignment where you have to identify a specific cancer of the head and neck, describe their treatment set-up, the tolerance doses to the organs at risk, the anatomical boundaries, the lymph nodes involved and the treatment of choice used for a specific patient in your clinic. You can find a copy of my assignment HERE.
Course Discussions:
Every couple of weeks the question of what have you learned in your directed readings or somewhere in the clinic that was not in the lecture notes? Then post with your response. Then we would all read each others responses and learn from one another. We would comment on each others responses with questions and reply back with answers to expand our knowledge.
First Discussion Post
Second Discussion Post
Self-Reflection
The new knowledge and skill I gained during this course were the treatments of the more uncommon cancers. The ones I have not seen much in clinic or as often. Whether they usually just have surgery or when they have radiation what dose do they receive.
The new knowledge and skills will benefit me by knowing each of these cancers we’ve discussed, I will have a better understanding of what I am treating and why, such as lymph nodes, and what doses are normal doses for certain areas.
I struggle with retaining all the information given in such a short period of time. I had to find a study pattern that worked for me so that I could retain all of the information.
I feel pretty good about the knowledge I gained in this course as a whole. I feel I have a pretty good grasp on most of the cancers and the important highlights of each.
Other reflective thoughts: When we first started this course and I started going through the lectures and saw how in depth everything was and how much of it there was, I kind of panicked. But I just took it one step at a time and I was able to do pretty well in this class by keeping my cool.
Course Description
This course was designed to give all the specifics on numerous disease sites, their usual treatment plans, and over all patient care during treatment.
Course Assessment:
This course was guided by a series of lectures, and directed readings. We used the website Radiotherap-e.com to help us see the CTVs of the diseases we were studying and their critical structures and lymph nodes that correspond to them. There were two discussion topics in which students posted and learned from one and other. Testing of the knowledge gained through the course was done through weekly quizzes. There was also a Head and Neck assignment where you have to identify a specific cancer of the head and neck, describe their treatment set-up, the tolerance doses to the organs at risk, the anatomical boundaries, the lymph nodes involved and the treatment of choice used for a specific patient in your clinic. You can find a copy of my assignment HERE.
Course Discussions:
Every couple of weeks the question of what have you learned in your directed readings or somewhere in the clinic that was not in the lecture notes? Then post with your response. Then we would all read each others responses and learn from one another. We would comment on each others responses with questions and reply back with answers to expand our knowledge.
First Discussion Post
Second Discussion Post
Self-Reflection
The new knowledge and skill I gained during this course were the treatments of the more uncommon cancers. The ones I have not seen much in clinic or as often. Whether they usually just have surgery or when they have radiation what dose do they receive.
The new knowledge and skills will benefit me by knowing each of these cancers we’ve discussed, I will have a better understanding of what I am treating and why, such as lymph nodes, and what doses are normal doses for certain areas.
I struggle with retaining all the information given in such a short period of time. I had to find a study pattern that worked for me so that I could retain all of the information.
I feel pretty good about the knowledge I gained in this course as a whole. I feel I have a pretty good grasp on most of the cancers and the important highlights of each.
Other reflective thoughts: When we first started this course and I started going through the lectures and saw how in depth everything was and how much of it there was, I kind of panicked. But I just took it one step at a time and I was able to do pretty well in this class by keeping my cool.