Introductory Course

This education experience provides an opportunity to expand the practitioner’s range of treatment options to include this precise form of stereotactic radiosurgery. The course will provide hands-on
sessions with experts experienced in radiosurgery. At the conclusion of the week, participants will receive a certificate of course attendance.

Introductory Course Target Audience

Neurosurgeons, medical physicists, radiation oncologists, neurootolaryngol- ists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists who have little or no experience with radiosurgery.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the basic principles and biophysics of radiosurgery and how they apply to day-to-day patient treatment.
• Review the clinical indications, parameters of treatment, and outcomes of radiosurgery.
• Recognize radiation safety issues and principles, as well as become familiar with the emergency procedures as they pertain to radiosurgery.
• Apply the principles of stereotactic frame application, imaging, and use of radiosurgery treatment hardware.

Course Location

The radiosurgery course is held in the Cleveland Clinic Gamma Knife Center located in the Taussig Cancer Center, Room CA-LL-63.