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Training Programme Description for acquiring Add-on title Veterinary

Radiation Oncologist

1. Introduction

This document describes the structure and content of a temporary veterinary radiation oncology Add-on training program. This Add-on programme is a way of moving forward and bringing in enough people with experience in radiation therapy to eventually develop a full residency training programme in radiation oncology. The Add-on programme will be meant for those who have finished a training programme (residency) in medical oncology by the ECVIM-CA or in diagnostic imaging by the ECVDI. Although both prerequisites lead to the same structure of add-on training, the programme will be different in content. This document describing the structure of the Add-on training will have to be approved by the EBVS.

Institutions offering Add-on training in radiation oncology intended to lead to board eligibility must have their training programme approved by the Education Committee Radiation Oncology, hereafter called as the Education Committee. This committee will be formed by two diplomates ECVIM-CA [Oncol] and two diplomates ECVDI, preferably also being diplomates ACVR-RO.

This Training Programme Description has to be approved by the Boards of the Individual Colleges (ECVIM-CA and ECVDI) involved. Any structural changes proposed by the Education Committee will have to be approved by both Boards before they can be implemented.

2. Objectives

The primary aim of the Add-on training programme is to advance veterinary radiation oncology in Europe and increase the competence of those who work in this field by

• establishing guidelines for post-graduate education and clinical experience, prerequisite to becoming acknowledged in veterinary radiation oncology¹

• examining and authenticating veterinarians in veterinary radiation oncology

In specific, an approved Add-on radiation oncology programme is intended to qualify the trainee in

• the therapeutic use of ionizing radiation

• a sound understanding of radiation biology and physics

• safe application of radiation in clinical veterinary practice

• imaging techniques as a critical part of radiation oncology – especially for treatment planning

• the biologic behaviour and clinical signs of various types of animal cancer.

• basic understanding of other treatment modalities and their clinical application

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¹ This add-on training will not lead to a separate specialist title