Clinical Training course designed to increase the capacity of the student to effectively manage the quality of the radiotherapy process. Students will be actively involved in the quality management programme for radiotherapy to include: Equipment management, Quality control checks of all equipment, and Acceptance testing and Commissioning where possible. Each step of the process of radiation treatment involves significant potential for errors and uncertainties. Such errors lead to actual exposures which are different from those prescribed. Effective quality management
programs help to reduce the occurrence of these errors and increase confidence in the radiotherapy process. The quality management process in radiotherapy is a primary responsibility of the medical physicist.
On successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
1. Manage: Equipment, Projects, and Staff, including liaising with other professional groups.
2. Design a quality management programme.
3. Perform quality control checks for orthovoltage and megavoltage therapy units and treatment simulators.
4. Design the physical aspects of a QA programme for treatment planning.
5. Design the physical aspects of a QA programme for brachytherapy equipment and Sources
6. *Perform and design acceptance testing procedures for orthovoltage and megavoltage therapy units and simulators.
7. *Perform commissioning procedures for orthovoltage and megavoltage therapy units and treatment simulators.
8. *Perform and design acceptance testing procedures in brachytherapy.
9. *Perform commissioning procedures of brachytherapy equipment and services.
* where conditions allow
Our 7 faculties and 12 professional schools offer more than 200 programmes to some 18,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students.
The UWI, Mona ranks first in Jamaica among accredited tertiary-level programmes. In 2012, the University was again one of Jamaica’s Top 100 Employers.
