Radiation Oncology Education Across the Learning Continuum: Current Challenges and Future Directions

Radiation oncology is critical to modern interdisciplinary cancer care, though exposure to radiation oncology remains limited across the medical education continuum. The practice of radiation oncology requires in-depth knowledge of evidence-based clinical oncology with highly technical and procedural practice competencies. This review defines the spectrum of teaching in radiation oncology, from effective teaching to scholarly teaching to scholarship of teaching and learning to support learners across the succession of medical education environments, spanning undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education with the goal of examining and defining current best practices in scholarly teaching within radiation oncology.