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Management Skills for Oncologists

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Event overview

The Royal College of Radiologists is hosting its annual management skills for oncologists’ workshop. The sessions will study the skills and approaches needed to undertake effective management as a consultant clinical oncologist.

This three-day programme will cover topics including appraisal, revalidation and dealing with difficult colleagues, specialist commissioning of radiotherapy and chemotherapy services, and the QIPPs (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) drive by the NHS.  

As in previous years, didactic lectures will be interspersed with interactive activities led by experts in the field. 

20 CPD points will be awarded on completion of this course. This course is not being recorded and will not be available for live streaming or on-demand post event. 

Learning objectives

  1. Develop practical management skills and approaches to effectively run a busy UK oncology department
  2. Connect and interact with like-minded colleagues from across the UK who are facing similar challenges

Who should attend?

Our highly regarded course will support:

  • Clinical and medical oncology senior trainees
  • Clinical oncology consultants in their first years of practice 

This course will provide the ideal forum for you to interact with colleagues facing similar challenges.

Registration fees

Registration typeFees
Trainees, allied healthcare professionals and concessions£485
RCR Consultant Fellows and members£720
Non-member £995
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Once you have completed your  registration, you will receive an email confirming your place at the event. If you do not receive this email confirmation within 24 hours, please contact the conference team ([email protected]).

Joining instructions with more information will be sent to your registered email address 5 working days before the event takes place.

Programme

Monday 25 November 2024

Timing

Schedule

09:30

Registration and refreshments

10:00

Welcome and ice-breaker

10:30

Continuing professional development, appraisal, and revalidation

11:20

Coffee and networking

11:45

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy specialist commissioning

13:00

Lunch

13:45

Job planning

15:00

Challenges as a consultant

16:00

Afternoon refreshments

16:15

‘Keeping your sanity’ – real time measurement, real time understanding, real time improvement

18:15

End of day one

 

Tuesday 26 November 2024

Timing

Schedule

08:30

Registration and refreshments

09:00

Compassion in oncology – managing fatigue over time

09:45

Surviving the consultant interview

11:15

Morning refreshments

11:30

Flexible working patterns

12:15

Radiotherapy peer review

13:00

Lunch

13:45

NIHR Clinical Research Network

15:00

Business planning workshop

16:10

Afternoon refreshments

16:30

Business planning workshop (continued)

17:45

Drinks reception

19:00

Course dinner (additional charge, further information to follow)

 

Wednesday 27 November 2024

Timing

Schedule

08:30

Registration and coffee

09:15

Quality improvement: radiotherapy incidents and errors

09:45

Leadership and training

11:00

Morning refreshments

11:15

What does a good acute oncology service look like and what part can a new consultant play in its development?

12:45

Lunch

13:30

Leadership

14:00

The role of the RCR

14:30

E-communication – manage emails, social media, data and apps

15:00

Feedback

15:30

End of course

 

Programme is subject to change.

Course dinner and drinks reception

The course includes a drinks reception as part of your registration fee on day two.

In addition, an optional course dinner, which will be organised at a local restaurant on the evening of day two will be arranged at an additional fee. Invitations and how to secure your space will be shared nearer the time.

Speaker faculty

Professor Mark Beresford, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Matthew Winter, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr David Woolf, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Location

The Royal College of Radiologists
63 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3JW

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  • ‘I would recommend this course to trainees approaching the end of their training. It was very informative covering each aspect of management practice’

    ‘Thank you for a great course and a really thought-provoking three-days’

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