Improving Clinical Oncology Trainees' Radiotherapy Induction

[3], but this has not been standardised across UK training programmes, and its extent and quality vary between radiotherapy centres. We therefore carried out a project aiming to improve the radiotherapy induction programme in our centre. A LEAN methodology was used to explore the issues around radiotherapy induction. As a result, a radiotherapy induction programme consisting of a radiotherapy department orientation tour, hands-on training on the radiotherapy treatment planning system and palliative radiotherapy planning was developed and implemented with a radiotherapy induction pack. An online survey of trainees/speciality doctors was conducted before and after the implementation of the programme. Thirteen doctors participated in the baseline and postradiotherapy induction programme surveys. After the implementation of radiotherapy induction, doctors’ agreement on good induction to the radiotherapy treatment planning system, radiotherapy planning workflow and radiotherapy departmental structure and contacts improved from 22 to 75%, 33 to 100% and 22 to 100%, respectively. All trainees had their passwords and completed their signature forms at induction. Of the 13 doctors, 92% agreed that a mandatory radiotherapy induction programme before clinical placement(s) at a new centre would be a good idea and 61% indicated that a regional-level radiotherapy induction programme would be useful.