Radiation Oncology Residency

Medical physics and molecular radiation biology lectures are held weekly for the PGY 2, PGY 3, and PGY 4 residents to attend. Faculty present medical physics lectures and cover fundamentals, including radiation delivery, dose calculations, treatment planning, brachytherapy, and radiation safety. The basic science curriculum continues with radiobiology. Radiobiology topics include classical radiation biology, carcinogenesis, fractionation, radiosensitization and protection, and molecular signaling pathway. Both lecture series cover all topics pertinent to the physics and radiobiology boards. Jefferson residents have had an excellent track record of performance on the board exams.

Residents attend national educational conferences, such as ASTRO and ASCO, as well as weekly local grand rounds. Residents actively participate in multidisciplinary conferences and tumor boards in gynecological cancers, breast cancer, stereotactic radiosurgery, head and neck cancer, colorectal/pancreas cancer, and genitourinal cancer. These conferences are attended by pathologists, surgeons, radiologists, and medical oncologists, in addition to radiation oncologists.

Our residents attend intradepartmental clinical oncology conferences that address new patient management, patient safety, principles of palliative care, principles of patient-centered care, principles of practice management, financial principles of medical practice, health policy, clinical informatics, and continuous quality improvement. In addition, our residents also have the opportunity to apply to the annual ASCO/AACR Methods in Clinical Care Research Workshop held in Vail, CO.