Radiation Oncology Physics

Category 1: Radiation protection and patient safety

• External beam and brachytherapy shielding design, calculations, definitions, limits, procedures, and regulations.
• Radiation biology, dose equivalence and dose response, risk assessment and communication of risk.
• Assuring patient safety through fault and error prevention, error identification, root cause analysis, quality assurance processes, staff training, and introduction of new technologies.
• Legal framework for radiation protection, regulatory guidance, material transport and waste management, event reporting, patient release, personnel monitoring, implanted patient devices, special conditions., emergency procedures.
• Professional and scientific aspects, ethics, professionalism.
• Statistical methods in research, tools and skills.