Radiation Oncology Virtual Mock Oral Course October 16-19, 2026

Description

Hone your critical reasoning and evaluation skills in this case review course. The course helps you focus on the most clinically relevant factors for diagnosis, management planning, and treatment approach across the essential areas of radiation oncology.

The course emphasizes the clinical management of malignant and benign diseases, including anatomy, epidemiology, pathology, patterns of local, regional, and distant involvement, treatment modalities, radiation treatment planning, treatment results, prognosis, and complications.

The course opens with a lecture on the critical reasoning and communication skills essential to passing the Oral Certification Exam.  Faculty reinforce these skills through recorded mock oral sessions. This content is available for participants to view during the course.  The recorded mock orals cover relevant standards-of-care cases. Moreover, they include half-hour mock oral exams with feedback.  In addition, participant volunteers and experienced faculty take part in 25-minute virtual simulations of the Oral Board process. This is followed by faculty critique.

Course fees include participation in two private virtual mock oral sessions scheduled during the course.  Participants may purchase additional mock orals if desired; however, topic availability may become limited as the course start date approaches.  We match participants with faculty based on their topic selections.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to perform the following for cancers of the eight ABR-defined anatomical categories:

• Describe the anatomy, epidemiology/etiologic agents, and natural history
• Explain the pathology and use of tumor markers in determining therapy
• Describe the initial clinical evaluation, staging, and routes of disease spread (local and distant)
• Outline potential treatment modalities, including optimum beam and radiation sources, volume and dose calculations, as well as fractionation, as appropriate for a case scenario
• Describe the application of brachytherapy or use of multimodality therapies, including sequence, interactions, and specific agents if warranted
• Discuss follow-up treatment and evaluation, patterns of failure, and expected tissue effects
• Review the use of palliative care for brain, hepatic, and skeletal lesions
• Summarize ethical issues, patient safety, and quality assurance pertinent to individual cases