| Question 1: Which does not describe the acceptance test of RO-EMR? |
| Reference: | INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION, Medical Electrical Equipment — Safety of Radiotherapy Record and Verify Systems, Report IEC 62274 ed.1.0, IEC, Geneva (2005). |
| Choice A: | Protection against unauthorized use. |
| Choice B: | Date and time. |
| Choice C: | Human errors in software design. |
| Choice D: | Deleting and editing data. |
| Question 2: According to the article “Quality Control Quantification” by Ford et al, which quality control check is the most effective individual check? |
| Reference: | Ford EC, Terezakis S, Souranis A, Harris K, Gay H, Mutic S. Quality control quantification (QCQ): a tool to measure the value of quality control checks in radiation oncology. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012;84(3):e263–e269. |
| Choice A: | Chart rounds. |
| Choice B: | Pretreatment IMRT QA. |
| Choice C: | Physics pretreatment plan review. |
| Choice D: | SSD check. |
| Question 3: Which of the following is NOT a characteristic or recommendation concerning electronic checklists as per Medical Physics Practice Guideline 4.a : “Development, implementation, use and maintenance of safety checklists”? |
| Reference: | Fong de Los Santos, L.E., et al., Medical Physics Practice Guideline 4.a: Development, implementation, use and maintenance of safety checklists. J Appl Clin Med Phys, 2015. 16(3): p. 5431. |
| Choice A: | Electronic interlocks that require checklist completion before treatment can provide an advantage over using paper. |
| Choice B: | One can perform quick conformance audits with electronic checklists. |
| Choice C: | Electronic checklists should not be used in time-critical procedures. |
| Choice D: | Electronic checklists can potentially tie a user to a computer terminal. |
| Question 4: Medical Physicists should partner with equipment service engineers, vendors, RO IT staff and hospital or clinic IT staff on the IT Infrastructure and Data Management of the RO e-chart environment (True or False?) |
| Reference: | • Siochi, R.A., et al., Information technology resource management in radiation oncology. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 2009. 10(4): p. 16-35.
• Siochi, R.A.C., C.D. Brack, and C.G. Orton, The Chief Information Technology Officer in a Radiation Oncology department should be a medical physicist. Medical Physics, 2009. 36(9): p. 3863-3865.
|
| Choice A: | True. |
| Choice B: | False. |
| Question 5: Prouty et al. identified the roles the providers and their colleagues play in communication breakdowns in cancer care. Which one of the below was included in their study: |
| Reference: | Prouty CD, Mazor KM, Greene SM, Roblin DW, Firneno CL, Lemay CA, Robinson BE, Gallagher TH. Providers' perceptions of communication breakdowns in cancer care. J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Aug;29(8):1122-30. doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-2769-1 |
| Choice A: | Providers may deliver inaccurate, insufficient, or incomplete information. |
| Choice B: | Poor information exchange among providers. |
| Choice C: | Lack of clarity about treatment protocols and responsibilities amongst providers. |
| Choice D: | All of the above. |
| Question 6: Which of the following benefits were not included in the brief opinion of Russo regarding the radiation oncology and hospital EMR integration: |
| Reference: | Russo GA When Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Talk, Everyone Can Win: Our Experience Creating a Software Link Between Hospital and Radiation Oncology EHRs. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Jan 1;94(1):206-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.09.012. Epub 2015 Sep 18. |
| Choice A: | Radiation oncology treatment data would be a permanent part of the health record in a common database. |
| Choice B: | The need to copy/paste data between systems is eliminated. |
| Choice C: | Treatment planning would be more accurate. |
| Choice D: | Radiation oncology data would be available in real time in Epic. Other oncology providers could know treatment progress continuously. |
