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Strahlenther Onkol. 2022 Jan;198(1):1-11. doi: 10.1007/s00066-021-01861-7. Epub 2021 Nov 16.

Integration of radiation oncology teaching in medical studies by German medical faculties due to the new licensing regulations : An overview and recommendations of the consortium academic radiation oncology of the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO).

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al]

H Dapper, C Belka, F Bock, V Budach, W Budach, H Christiansen, J Debus, L Distel, J Dunst, F Eckert, H Eich, W Eicheler, R Engenhart-Cabillic, R Fietkau, D F Fleischmann, B Frerker, F A Giordano, A L Grosu, K Herfarth, G Hildebrandt, D Kaul, O Kölbl, M Krause, D Krug, D Martin, C Matuschek, D Medenwald, N H Nicolay, M Niewald, M Oertel, C Petersen, F Pohl, A Raabe, C Rödel, C Rübe, C Schmalz, L C Schmeel, D Steinmann, G Stüben, R Thamm, D Vordermark, H Vorwerk, T Wiegel, D Zips, S E Combs

Affiliations

  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. [email protected].
  2. German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) Partner Site (DKTK), Munich, Germany. [email protected].
  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
  4. German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany.
  5. Department of Radiation Oncology, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany.
  6. Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  7. Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
  8. Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.
  9. Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
  10. Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
  11. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
  12. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
  13. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
  14. German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) Partner Site (DKTK), Tübingen, Germany.
  15. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
  16. OncoRay-National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.
  17. Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
  18. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Bonn, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
  19. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
  20. German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) Partner Site (DKTK), Freiburg, Germany.
  21. Partner Site Berlin, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany.
  22. Department of Radiotherapy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
  23. Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
  24. OncoRay-National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.
  25. Partner Site Dresden, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany.
  26. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.
  27. Heidelberg and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Dresden, Germany.
  28. Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
  29. German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) Partner Site (DKTK), Frankfurt, Germany.
  30. Deptartment of Radiation Oncology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
  31. Department of Radiotherapy and Radiooncology, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany.
  32. Department of Radiotherapy and Radio-Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
  33. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
  34. Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
  35. Department of Radiation Oncology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
  36. Institute of Radiation Medicine, Department of Radiation Sciences, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany.
  37. German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) Partner Site (DKTK), Munich, Germany.

PMID: 34786605 PMCID: PMC8594460 DOI: 10.1007/s00066-021-01861-7

Abstract

The new Medical Licensing Regulations 2025 (Ärztliche Approbationsordnung, ÄApprO) will soon be passed by the Federal Council (Bundesrat) and will be implemented step by step by the individual faculties in the coming months. The further development of medical studies essentially involves an orientation from fact-based to competence-based learning and focuses on practical, longitudinal and interdisciplinary training. Radiation oncology and radiation therapy are important components of therapeutic oncology and are of great importance for public health, both clinically and epidemiologically, and therefore should be given appropriate attention in medical education. This report is based on a recent survey on the current state of radiation therapy teaching at university hospitals in Germany as well as the contents of the National Competence Based Learning Objectives Catalogue for Medicine 2.0 (Nationaler Kompetenzbasierter Lernzielkatalog Medizin 2.0, NKLM) and the closely related Subject Catalogue (Gegenstandskatalog, GK) of the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions (Institut für Medizinische und Pharmazeutische Prüfungsfragen, IMPP). The current recommendations of the German Society for Radiation Oncology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Radioonkologie, DEGRO) regarding topics, scope and rationale for the establishment of radiation oncology teaching at the respective faculties are also included.

© 2021. The Author(s).

Keywords: Medical studies; New licensing regulations; Radiation oncology teaching

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