Course Director

Mary Coffey, Radiation Technologist, TCD School of Radiation Therapy, Dublin (IE)

Course Co-Directors

Jill Byrne, Radiation Technologist, TCD School of Radiation Therapy, Dublin (IE)
Andreas Osztavics, Radiation Technologist, SMZ Süd Kaisr-Franz-Josef-Spital, Institüt für Radioonkologie, Wien (AT)

Course Aim

Patients requiring palliative care comprise a significant component of the radiotherapy workload for most departments. Managing this patient group effectively to ensure optimum quality of life requires a complex set of skills. This course aims at providing participants with an understanding of the overall principles of both long term palliative care and end of life or terminal palliative care and to address, in greater detail, the specific scientific, technical, psychosocial and management issues relating to palliative radiotherapy.

Target Audience

The course is designed for RTTs, oncology nurses and (radiation) oncologists wishing to update their knowledge in the field of palliative care.

Educational Programme

  Principles of Palliative Care
09.00 – 09.10: Welcome and overview (defining the difference)

                        Jill BYRNE
09.10 – 09.50: Palliative care – a patient centered approach

                        Tony O’BRIEN
09.50 – 10.30: Palliative radiotherapy

                        Jan Willem LEER
10.30 – 11.00: Fractionation schedules and radiobiology

                        Pierre SCALLIET

 

11.00 – 11.30: COFFEE BREAK

 

Treatment Approach and Managing Patient Flow in the Department
11.30 – 11.40: Overview

                        Mary COFFEY
11.40 – 12.00: The management of bone metastases

                        Yvette VAN DER LINDEN
12.00 – 12.30: Re-treatment schedules

                        Angela CLAYTON
12.30 – 13.00: Training for RTT’s

                        Andreas OZTAVICS

 

13.00 – 14.00: LUNCH

 

Treatment Delivery – Creating the Right Environment
14.00 – 14.10: Overview

14.10 – 14.45: Quality of life and informed consent

                        Julie BERRIDGE
14.45 – 15.10: Bereavement counseling

                        Jill BYRNE
15.10 – 15.30: Current clinical trials in palliative care

                        Mary COFFEY

 

15.30 – 16.00: COFFEE BREAK

 

16.00 – 16.30: Providing the service

                        Eeva SALMINEN
16.30 – 17.00: Panel discussion and closing remarks