How to Say No

This activity focuses on strategies for setting healthy professional boundaries, including the skill of opportunity discernment. Designed for early and mid-career professionals, the activity addresses the pressures that can arise from balancing numerous responsibilities and opportunities, particularly within the demanding fields of radiation oncology and medical physics. It delineates specific strategies for making work more manageable, including strategies that women (and those of any gender tending towards people pleasing) may find particularly helpful given societal and professional obligations placed uniquely on them.

This activity is available from March 7, 2025, through 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on March 6, 2027.

The content was originally presented and recorded as a live webinar on January 31, 2025.

 

Target Audience

This course is designed to meet the interest of radiation oncologists, radiation physicists and radiation oncology residents.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this live activity, participants should be able to:

  • Identify common scenarios where early and mid-career professionals might struggle to say no in the medical physics and radiation oncology fields.
  • Develop and apply effective communication techniques to decline requests in a professional and respectful manner.
  • Implement strategies to hold professional boundaries and optimize opportunity discernment, in the face of gendered expectations.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 Certificate of Attendance
    This activity was designated for 0.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
Course opens: 
03/07/2025
Course expires: 
03/06/2027
Cost:
$0.00

Moderators

  • Hina Saeed, MD, is employed by Baptist Health South Florida.
  • Isabelle Choi, MD, is employed by The New York Proton Center and serves in a leadership position with Proton Collaborative Group and National Association of Proton Therapy.
  • Caroline Chung, MD, MS, is employed by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and receives research funding from RaySearch Laboratories and Siemens Healthineers.
  • Dilini Pinnaduwage, PhD, is employed by Dignity Health.

Speaker:

  • Suzanne Evans, MD, is employed by Yale University.

The person(s) above served as the developer(s) of this activity. Additionally, the Education Committee had control over the content of this activity.

All relevant relationships have been mitigated.

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ASTRO Education Committee

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

An application will be submitted to the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs for 1 MPCEC hour.

Continuing education credits for this activity must be claimed by March 2, 2025, by completing the evaluation.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 Certificate of Attendance
    This activity was designated for 0.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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Policies:

No refunds, extensions, or substitutions will be made for those participants who, for any reason, have not completed the activity by the expiration date.

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The activity and its materials will only be available on the ASTRO website until March 6, 2027, regardless of purchase date. At the expiration of the activity, participants will no longer have access to the activity or its materials. ASTRO reserves the right to remove an activity before its expiration date.

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