A 'learning-by-doing' treatment planning tutorial for medical physicists

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-117

  Meyer, Jürgen ^a   Hartmann, B ^a,b   Kalet, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Education in medical physics; Learning methods; Open source software; Prism treatment planning system; Self guided tutorial

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING METHODS; LEARNING MODULES; LEARNING OUTCOME; LEARNING PARADIGMS; LEARNING-BY-DOING; MEDICAL PHYSICS; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; SELF-GUIDED TUTORIAL; STUDENT-CENTRED; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON;

BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PRISMS;

STUDENTS;

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ONCOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICS; PRISM; SCIENTIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHER; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEEDBACK; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PHYSICS; TEACHING;

EID: 67749131026     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178637     Document Type: Article

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