• Ewa Szumacher, Edmee Franssen, Charles Hayter, Cyril Danjoux, Edward Chow, Lourdes Andersson, Rebecca Wong, and Andrew Loblaw.
• Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ewa.szumacher@tsrcc.on.ca
• J Cancer Educ. 2003 Jan 1; 18 (2): 86-90.

BackgroundThis paper describes the development of the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program and evaluates the continuing medical education (CME) series, in the form of multidisciplinary monthly Radiation Oncology Palliative Care Rounds at the Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre.MethodsPalliative care rounds were initiated by the multidisciplinary committee in September, 1998. From January, 2000, to June, 2002, attendees used a standard 5- point Likert rating scale to conduct formal evaluations.ResultsA total of 203 evaluation forms examining 20 rounds have been collected. Findings indicated that 86.8, 96.0, 87.1, and 90.8% of participants thought the material of the presentation was relevant to their practice, interesting, and instructional. Overall 90.1% of the respondents highly rated the grand rounds (rating of 4 or 5).ConclusionThe grand rounds are an effective CME activity at our hospital.

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