Roswell Park in Buffalo, NY has a program. Not sure how good it is or long, but if you are interested may be worth checking out. I just hope you don't mind lots of snow :)
I have my A.S in math and science, then did a 2 year B.S. program in rad therapy. I did therapy for a year and was offered to be trained on the job in dosimetry. Did the "training" in 2 years, took the CMD and passed. So, I never had a structured program for dosimetry. It was all clincial and on the job training.
Buell, like your vids. though i've been out of the field forever now, for the first part of the tutorial, if in sim you have sym jaws, after opening up the borders, shouldn't the correction be made on the treatment table using blocks or mlc base on what the doc drew as the wanted border, for shifting the table would subsequently move the iso ctr. i may be wrong, it's been so long anyway.
Ah, I see your point for treatment. I was showing shifts that may occur in simulation where you only had symmetric jaws and where you are in the process of establishing iso center. I would have done this on a simulator but our facility only has a CT sim, so I had to show this on the treatment machine and I used a DRR to show this instead of a fluoro image. Hopefully this makes sense?
Wow! As a radiation therapy student, this video has certainly taught me more in 10 minutes than countless hours of reading in my textbooks. Thanks for sharing!!
i plan on moving to nyc, do you know of any dosimetry programs in ny state?
luvmuziq 3 years ago
Roswell Park in Buffalo, NY has a program. Not sure how good it is or long, but if you are interested may be worth checking out. I just hope you don't mind lots of snow :)
rtbuell2004 3 years ago
thanks, which program did you attend?
luvmuziq 3 years ago
I have my A.S in math and science, then did a 2 year B.S. program in rad therapy. I did therapy for a year and was offered to be trained on the job in dosimetry. Did the "training" in 2 years, took the CMD and passed. So, I never had a structured program for dosimetry. It was all clincial and on the job training.
rtbuell2004 3 years ago
Buell, like your vids. though i've been out of the field forever now, for the first part of the tutorial, if in sim you have sym jaws, after opening up the borders, shouldn't the correction be made on the treatment table using blocks or mlc base on what the doc drew as the wanted border, for shifting the table would subsequently move the iso ctr. i may be wrong, it's been so long anyway.
luvmuziq 3 years ago
Ah, I see your point for treatment. I was showing shifts that may occur in simulation where you only had symmetric jaws and where you are in the process of establishing iso center. I would have done this on a simulator but our facility only has a CT sim, so I had to show this on the treatment machine and I used a DRR to show this instead of a fluoro image. Hopefully this makes sense?
rtbuell2004 3 years ago
After only 2 days in clinicals, this video really helps to clear up some questions! Thanks and looking forward to the next video!
shiloh1272 4 years ago
Wow! As a radiation therapy student, this video has certainly taught me more in 10 minutes than countless hours of reading in my textbooks. Thanks for sharing!!
XLADYSHIPX 4 years ago 2
Thanks for the positive feed back, and glad it helped!
rtbuell2004 4 years ago