MD Radiotherapy

Oncology is a highly specialized and technical discipline in clinical medicine comprising treatment with ionizing radiations and cytotoxic agents as major arms in non-surgical management and treatment of cancer. With a view to update, by inclusion of newer topics, and to provide a uniform syllabus and course contents in Indian universities and teaching medical institutions, the proposed guidelines provide course outlines based on recent developments in clinical medicine and other disciplines related to oncology.

The goal of providing training under this specialty is to enable the post graduate students to acquire complete knowledge in diagnosis and comprehensive management of cancer patients with radiotherapy. This clinical specialty is exclusively focused only on oncology at the post-graduate level. Hence, the doctors trained under this field, after completing their course, should be fully capable of handling cancer patients with non-surgical modalities of diagnosis and treatment. Besides, as per WHO, they should also be capable of guiding and coordinating cancer prevention (?), control, screening, early detection, rehabilitation, palliative and terminal care programs for these patients in the country as per the evolving needs and to meet the objectives of the National Cancer Control Programme of India. The post graduate students would also be expected to have acquired knowledge of various research methodologies, a broad based training in all aspects of cancer science and treatment and be able to plan/coordinate research studies in the departmental, and be a part of inter-departmental or multi-centric, national/international research programmes.