Invited Session: Current state of Education Across Disciplines - Brian Chwyl, RTT; Paris Ingledew, MD, Sarah Quirk, PhD | Sunalta ABC
January 30, 2025 from 10:30am MDT to 12:00pm MDT
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Invited Session: Current state of Education Across Disciplines - Brian Chwyl, RTT; Paris Ingledew, MD, Sarah Quirk, PhD | Sunalta ABC
January 30, 2025 from 10:30am MDT to 12:00pm MDT -
Invited Session: Current state of Education Across Disciplines - Brian Chwyl, RTT; Paris Ingledew, MD, Sarah Quirk, PhD | Sunalta ABC
January 30, 2025 from 10:30am MDT to 12:00pm MDT
Brian Chwyl MRT(T), BSc, MEd(DE)
Brian Chwyl MRT(T), BSc, MEd(DE)
Brian Chwyl MRT(T), BSc, MEd(DE)
Brian has worked in radiation therapy since the mid-90’s with roles as a floor therapist, treatment unit lead, and departmental clinical educator. In 2014 he joined the team at University of Alberta to create and teach in Alberta’s first university program in radiation therapy. In his 10 years with the program he has prevalently been involved with the development of their high-fidelity simulation education program.
Brian enjoys integrating innovative ideas into teaching, and is currently the program’s Educational Technology Integration Lead. Current projects include developing a video library for the efficient and effective teaching of clinical skills, building an online educational resource to share them, and 3-D printing anatomical models from DICOM objects. Brian has spoken locally, nationally and internationally on education topics since 2005. Most recently he was the CAMRT representative at the 2023 ASRT Educator Institute.
Paris-Ann Ingledew
Dr.
Paris-Ann Ingledew
Paris-Ann Ingledew
Dr.
Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew is a Clinical Professor in the UBC Department of Surgery and a the Department Head of Radiation Oncology at the Vancouver Cancer Centre. She is the Undergraduate Division Director for Radiation Oncology & Developmental Radiotherapeutics at UBC working to help with oncology education throughout the UBC medical program. She completed her MD and residency at the University of British Columbia. She was a UBC Center for Health Education Scholarship Fellow and she completed her Masters in Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois Chicago. She regularly supervises medical students and residents in both clinical and research contexts. She has contributed to setting national standards for training medical students in oncology and is the lead for a website used in 172 countries for oncology education www.learnoncology.ca. With respect to resident education, she is the Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Radiation Oncology Specialty Committee and is actively involved in the Competency by Design for radiation oncology. She is the current section editor for Education for the Red Journal. Her current research interests are focused on the physician competencies related to patient education, professional role identity in oncology disciplines and projects related to oncology education in the undergraduate medical setting.