Training
The Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center is committed to providing training for new generations of physicians and scientists, and is a major teaching site for Harvard Medical School. All of our staff in the Department of Radiation Oncology share this commitment and are dedicated to training future professionals in the field of radiation oncology.
Medical Student Education
The Department of Radiation Oncology welcomes medical students to visit and observe physicians in a clinical setting. Students in their third or fourth year of medical school may register for a four-week elective rotation in radiation oncology through Harvard Medical School. Current Harvard students may register for course number RA502M.JB. Non-Harvard students interested in applying for the rotation should contact the Harvard Registrar at (617) 432-1515 to find out about the Harvard Exchange Clerk Program, or visit the Exchange Clerk Web site at www.hms.harvard.edu/registrar/aServices/xClerk.html.
For more information, or to arrange a visit to the department, please contact the radiation oncology medical student course director, Akila Viswanathan, MD, at aviswanathan@lroc.harvard.edu.
Residency Program
The Department of Radiation Oncology participates in a four-year residency program at Harvard Medical School, which includes three clinical years organized into three-month rotation periods at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Boston Medical Center, along with one research year. For more information on the program, as well as application information, visit the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program Residency Web site at www.harvardradonc.org.
Clinical Fellowship Program
The Department of Radiation Oncology hosts up to five fellows each year in clinical radiation oncology. These 12-month, full-time appointments are elective years focusing on an area of sub-specialization such as brachytherapy, central nervous system, pediatrics, or image guidance. Fellowships can also focus entirely on clinical research. Radiation oncology fellowships are intended to prepare candidates to take up sub-specialization positions in teaching institutions. Applications are made by e-mail to pdevlin@lroc.harvard.edu, or in writing to:
Phillip Devlin, MD
Chief, Division of Brachytherapy
Department of Radiation Oncology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street, ASB1, L2
Boston, MA 02115
Fellowships in Medical Physics
Postdoctoral fellowships in medical physics last two-and-a-half years and consist of supervised research, medical physics education and clinical training in radiotherapy physics. Fellows generally have PhDs in physics or engineering, but no medical physics experience is necessary for entrance into the program. In their time here, fellows have the opportunity to join faculty physicists in directed research and development projects leading to presentation of results at national and international conferences, as well as publications in scientific journals. They will also attend didactic lectures in medical physics weekly, as well as seminars on current research from internal and external speakers. For clinical radiotherapy training, they will rotate through the various clinical routines to gain practical experience. Our goal is to prepare our postdoctoral fellows to become outstanding researchers and clinical physicists.
