Radiation Oncology Virtual Education Rotation (ROVER) 2.0 for Residents: Implementation and Outcomes

We report outcomes from Radiation Oncology Virtual Education Rotation (ROVER) 2.0, a supplementary virtual educational curriculum created for radiation oncology residents globally. A prospective cohort of residents completed surveys before and after the live virtual webinar sessions (pre- and post-surveys, respectively). Live sessions were structured as complex gray-zone cases across various core disease sites. Resident demographics and responses were summarized using means, standard deviations, and proportions. Nine ROVER sessions were held from October 2020 to June 2021. A total of 1487 registered residents completed the pre-survey, of which 786 attended the live case discussion and 223 completed post-surveys. A total of 479 unique radiation oncology residents (of which 95,n = 19.8%, were international attendees) from 147 institutions (national,n = 81, 55.1%; international,n = 66, 44.9%) participated in the sessions. There was similar participation across post-graduate year (PGY) 2 through 5 (rangen = 86 ton = 105). Of the 122 unique resident post-surveys, nearly all reported learning through the virtual structure as “very easy” or “easy” (97.5%,n = 119). A majority rated the ROVER 2.0 educational sessions to be “valuable or “very valuable” (99.2%,n = 121), and the panelists-attendee interaction as “appropriate” (97.5%,n = 119). Virtual live didactics aimed at radiation oncology residents are feasible. These results suggest ...
Source: Journal of Cancer Education - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research