Venue:  See the course schedule below Coordinator: Slobodan Devic, PhD, Department of Medical Physics, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada Course Faculty: Ervin Podgorsak, Mohammed Saiful Huq, Slobodan Devic, Waleed Al-Najjar, William Parker, Nada Tomic , Ghazi Alsbeih, Mohammed Al-Shabanah, Shan Yau, Belal Moftah, and Pedro Andreo

Course Aim:

This intensive course will provide comprehensive lectures to offer a broad understanding of the fundamentals of Medical Physics and help participants to prepare for board certification exams. In addition, workshops emerging from this course will cover topics ranging from basic radiation therapy planning procedures to advanced radiation therapy techniques as well as Monte Carlo simulations, 3D gel dosimetry and radiochromic film dosimetry.

An anonymous practice board exam will be given during the first and the last day of the course to provide participants with medical physics certification exam practice. The practice exam will consist of typical board exam questions on basic radiation physics. Students will complete the exam and hand it in under their chosen code name and the exam results will be posted under the code names.

Handouts related to specific lectures will be distributed before lectures.

Course Schedule:
LECTURE SESSIONS : Sunday, February 16
Venue: Post Graduate Classroom 1, KFSH&RC
Welcoming Note and Scope of the Course

1. Medical Physics in Saudi Arabia: Past, Present, and Future, Belal Moftah
2. Evolving Trends in Academic and Clinical Education of Medical Physicists, Ervin Podgorsak
3. Tutorial on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Waleed Al-Najjar
4. Tutorial on Radiation Therapy Process, Mohammed Al Shabanah
5. Practical Aspects of Medical Physics Certification Examinations, Ervin Podgorsak
6. First Anonymous Practical Examination, Ervin Podgorsak
7. Tutorial on X-ray Imaging for Radiotherapy, Nada Tomic
8. Tutorial on MRI and PET for Radiotherapy, Slobodan Devic
9. Tutorial on Radiation Biology, Ghazi Alsbeih
10. Tutorial on Brachytherapy, Slobodan Devic
11. Tutorial on Energy Transfer and Energy Absorption in Photon Interactions with Matter, Ervin Podgorsak
12. Tutorial on Interaction of Charged Particles with Matter, Ervin Podgorsak

LECTURE SESSIONS: Monday, February 17
Venue: AlFardousa, Intercontinental Hotel

1. Tutorial on Target and Flattening Filter in Production of Megavoltage X-ray Beams: Theoretical and Practical Aspects, Ervin Podgorsak
2. Tutorial on Medical Linear Accelerator Operation, Shan Yau
3. Tutorial on Calibration of Photon Beams following TRS398 recommendations, Mohammed Saiful Huq
4. Tutorial on Calibration of Electron Beams following TRS398 recommendations, Mohammed Saiful Huq

LECTURE SESSIONS: Tuesday, February 18
Venue: AlFardousa, Intercontinental Hotel

1. IMRT – An Overview, Mohammed Saiful Huq
2. Tutorial on Implementation of Image Guided Radio Therapy, Nada Tomic
3. Tutorial on Small Field Dosimetry, Perdo Andreo

LECTURE SESSIONS: Wednesday, February 19
Venue: AlFardousa, Intercontinental Hotel

1. Tutorial on Health Physics, William Parker
2. Tutorial on Electron Beam Therapy, William Parker
3. Second Practical Examination, Ervin Podgorsak

WORKSHOP SESSIONS: Wednesday, February 19
Venue: Research Centre Classroom 304, KFSH&RC
Results of Second Practical Examination, Ervin Podgorsak

WORKSHOP SESSIONS: Wednesday, February 19

For more information please contact:
Josie Vasquez
Tel. No.: 011- 464-7272 ext: 24969
Email: vasquezj@kfshrc.edu.sa