Survey: External Beam ELECTRON Planning Competency
Reviewer: Clinical Instructors (FELLOWS, Ashley)
Reviewee: Students (Lee, Ji)
Survey Period: 4/7/2021
Completed: 4/9/2021 [Link] AM CT
1. Please assign each task a score of Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory.
Unsatisfactory in any essential task constitutes competency failure.
The student will repeat the competency at a later date.
Discusses the plan prescription with the Satisfactory
physician.
Loads the patient imaging studies into the N/A
planning computer. Additional Comment: Has loaded images when a
sim therapist.... is done by sim therapist.
Contours the appropriate anatomy on the Satisfactory
image data set. Additional Comment: lung, heart, skin
Successfully places field/SSD using N/A
simulation data. Additional Comment: MD placed fld Ji adjusted for
optimal plan , used 100SSD
Correctly generates plan using Satisfactory
appropriate cone/cutout size.
Generates plan with correct reference Satisfactory
depth. Additional Comment: effective
Generates plan with appropriate energy. Satisfactory
Additional Comment: Gave MD 3 different energies
because it was on the cusp but realized that
highest energy was probably not the best plan
because of additional lung and heart dose.
Correctly adds the appropriate thickness N/A
of bolus. Additional Comment: Bed was very deep.
Generates bolus to adequately cover N/A
treatment field borders. Additional Comment: not used for this case
Accurately calculates daily dose for Satisfactory
treatment field using prescription % and
weighting.
Accurately generates a single fraction Satisfactory
DVH or composite DVH (for correct # of
fractions).
Communicates effectively with physician Satisfactory
for plan review and makes changes as Additional Comment: Verbal and written.
requested.
Exports/Prints appropriate plan data. Satisfactory
Performs hand verification calculations for N/A
plan MU settings using data/calc books Additional Comment: Used Rad Cal but has
practice electron hand calc on other pt
Enters in correct parameters for patient Satisfactory
chart.
Performs pretreatment Satisfactory
checks/calculations.
Observes patient treatment. N/A
Additional Comment: Treated as a therapist and
this pt was treated at an off site.
2. Overall rating:
Pass
3. Additional Comments:
Ji ask questions and really wants to make sure that everything is correct so no error on the treatment
end.
Response as of 5/3/2021 [Link] PM CT