14–19 Jan 2024
Europe/Zurich timezone
PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2024

The PSI Winter School 2024 has taken place.

Please note that the website for the PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2025 can be found under: 
PSI Winter School 2025


                                                    

                                                                                      
Content of the course:

  • Clinical indications adult (CNS, GI, Head & Neck, Skull base)
  • Pediatrics and AYA
  • Basic physics of proton therapy
  • Radiation biology
  • Delivery & treatment planning
  • Therapy workflow
  • Uncertainty & motion
  • Specification, commissioning & Q.A.
  • New directions in proton therapy

Aim of course:

To provide detailed knowledge on the clinical, physics and technological aspects of proton therapy using pencil beam scanning

Target audience:

Radiation oncologists, medical physicists, physicists, engineers, radiation technologists and dosimetrists. No previous knowledge of proton therapy is necessary.

Important:

Kindly note that the course is designed for 45 external participants and registration will close when the number of participants has been reached, but latest by: Sunday, December 17th, 2023

 

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Europe/Zurich

Accommodation

PSI has reserved hotel rooms from January 14th until 19th, 2024. Participants are not required to make reservations themselves. Refunds for early departure can not be granted.
However, accompanying persons are asked to contact us (winterschool@psi.ch) as the Park-Hotel Bad Zurzach offers a special arrangement to them for CHF 93.-- per night incl. breakfast.

On registration you may confirm this date or indicate if you arrive earlier or depart later. Kindly note that nights booked before or after this date, are for your own expense and you will have to pay these nights directly at the reception of the hotel.
Only the reservation for these extra nights will be done by us on the dates you are indicating during registration.

Price for the course, accommodation and full board: CHF 2'700.--

Conference/school facilities, including

  • coffee breaks

Full board accommodation, including

  • double room - single occupancy
  • breakfast buffet, lunch, 3-course dinner
  • access to spa, sauna, steam bath
  • free entrance to wellness center and thermal spa
  • free parking

Skiing day: CHF 300.-- including transportation to the skiing destination, skipass, skirental and lunch.
The skiing day will take place at Flumserberg. For further information you may see: https://www.flumserberg.ch/en/Experience-winter

An additional night is at CHF 168.-- per night including breakfast.

Park-Hotel Bad Zurzach
Badstrasse 44
5330 Bad Zurzach

Phone: +41 56 269 88 11
Fax: +41 56 249 38 08

Email: info@park-hotel-zurzach.ch
Web: https://www.parkhotel-bad-zurzach.ch
Web: http://www.badzurzach.ch