1. MARK COLLINS RADIOTHERAPYAND ONCOLOGY The use of screen
casting in the teaching of radiotherapy planning
2. What is radiotherapy planning? Software is used to create or
design a radiotherapy treatment plan. The software used is very
similar to CAD
3. What is radiotherapy planning? Two key aspects to the
teaching Using the software Understanding why! (easy bit)
4. Traditional sessions 4 hours of lectures on the theory 30
minute Introductory session on the software Followed by..
5. Traditional sessions
6. Traditional sessions This seemed to work well for the How to
use the software bit No so well on the Why bit The class often
looked like this.
7. Example screen cast
8. First session Students sat at a terminal with headphones on.
Quickly became apparent that only having one screen was a problem.
Second session there was an iPad at each terminal I was a
convert!
9. Questionnaire What about the students.?
10. Feedback
11. Comments
12. Themes Overall feedback excellent Students like: Working at
their own pace Having each section explained in detail The fact I
planned the patient in real time Being able to replay a section if
they didnt understand anything Hardly any hands went up Lose some
interaction in the class Difficult to pull the class together as
headphones on Eerie silence in the class!
