Four years with FALCON - an ESTRO educational project: achievements and perspectives

Jesper Grau Eriksen; Carl Salembier; Sofia Rivera; Berardino De Bari; Daniel Berger; Giovanna Mantello; Arndt-Christian Müller; Arturo Navarro Martin; Danilo Pasini; Kari Tanderup; Miika Palmu; Christine Verfaillie; Richard Pötter; Vincenzo Valentini; ESTRO

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2014.06.017

Four years with FALCON - an ESTRO educational project: achievements and perspectives

Radiother Oncol. 2014 Jul;112(1):145-9. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.06.017. Epub 2014 Jul 25.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark. Electronic address: jesper@oncology.dk.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, Europe Hospitals, Brussels, Belgium.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Radiation Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Department of Radiotherapy, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy.
⁷ Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany.
⁸ Department of Radiation Oncology, Instituto Catalan de Oncologia, Barcelona, Spain.
⁹ Department of Radiotherapy, Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Rome, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
¹¹ ESTRO Office, Brussels, Belgium.

PMID: 25070586
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.06.017

Abstract

Variability in anatomical contouring is one of the important uncertainties in radiotherapy. FALCON (Fellowship in Anatomic deLineation and CONtouring) is an educational ESTRO (European SocieTy for Radiation and Oncology) project devoted to improve interactive teaching, the homogeneity in contouring and to compare individual contours with endorsed guidelines or expert opinions. This report summarizes the experience from the first 4 years using FALCON for educational activities within ESTRO School and presents the perspectives for the future.

Keywords: Contouring; Delineation; Radiotherapy accuracy; Teaching impact; Variability; e-Learning.

MeSH terms

Achievement
Computer-Assisted Instruction / methods*
Europe
Fellowships and Scholarships*
Humans
Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
Radiation Oncology / education*
Radiotherapy / methods
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / methods*
Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted / methods
Societies, Medical