eContouring Overview
To address the growing need of additional contouring training in the radiation oncology community, ASTRO began offering hands-on contouring courses lead by expert radiation oncologists, radiologists and surgeons.
Cases from various disease sites are presented with the contours of expert faculty outlining normal and diseased tissues. Participants are given a set of structures to contour and then have the ability to turn the expert’s contours on to see a comparison between the participant and expert’s contours. Participants are also given a score to quantify how close their contours came to the expert’s contours.
Current eContouring Offerings
The ASTRO Academy offers a variety of eContouring activities, including an eContouring Case Library and live webinars.
Project Introduction
This project outlines how participants can use the ASTRO’s eContouring activities towards fulfilling the Part IV Practice Quality Improvement (PQI) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements that have been established by the American Board of Radiology (ABR). Participants will use the pre-activity eContouring homework to develop baseline data to contour specific structures, evaluate their performance, and develop a performance improvement plan. After reviewing the faculty led lecture, participants will re-measure their performance on the same contouring case and structures and evaluate their performance outcomes to see if their performance goals were met. The project concludes with a written participant reflection.
Administration
Participants are responsible for documenting the project according to the outline, and must personally attest to its completion on the myABR website in accordance with the ABR’s MOC requirements. While ASTRO is able to confirm a facility’s participation in a live eContouring event, ASTRO will not be collecting, reviewing, or validating PQI projects.