Should a formal radiology year(s) be added to the radiation oncology residency training program given the number and increasing modalities used for target delineation and treatment planning?  

As I close in on the end of my career, I must disagree with this idea! I’m sure we all are greatly impressed by the clinical acumen of our fourth-year medical students but that is not enough clinical training. My three-year medical residency taught me how to be a DOCTOR, my radiation oncology ...

Not at the moment. Residency programs are required to provide a month of it (ACMGE reqs) or fill that requirement with tumor boards where cases are presented with a radiologist present. Adding time to the residency would either have to squish out clinical rad onc training, which is a bad trade-off, ...

Intern year should be converted to a radiology year. I don’t think being a ‘hospitalist for a year’ is useful for us, but being a ‘diagnostic radiologist for a year’ would be by improving our contouring ability and that translates directly to better outcomes. Dedicated ...