March 2025 ARRO Announcements

EAGL Grants are back! Mark your calendar for Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, from May 19-20, 2025
The ASTRO Advocacy Team invites you to join us May 19 and 20 in Washington, DC, for a look into Congress and the policy issues that affect both you and your patients. Residents and nurses interested in attending Advocacy Day 2025 are encouraged to apply to receive an Emerging Advocacy Grassroots Leadership (EAGL) Award. Approved applicants will receive a $400 grant to offset the costs of attendance. Applications must be received by March 21 in order to be considered. Review instructions on how to apply and details.

Global Health Scholars Grant due April 18!
Applications for the 2025 Global Health Scholars Grant are now being accepted! The deadline to submit an application is Friday, April 18, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time. Individuals interested in pursuing a global health rotation are invited to submit their applications to obtain a $2,500 travel grant to help cover the costs of the rotation.

In addition to the application, a letter of support from your program director, a letter of support from the sponsor institution, a personal statement, and a project description must be included. If you have any questions, please reach out to Joy Ogunmuyiwa, MD, MPH, or Oluwatimileyin Ojo, MD for more information.

Nominations for ARRO Faculty Educator of the Year now open!
ARRO is now accepting nominations for the 2025 ARRO Faculty Educator of the Year award! ARRO strives to promote and recognize educational excellence in radiation oncology training programs. Each year, ARRO presents the annual Educator of the Year Award to one outstanding faculty member at each participating institution. The chief resident at each program is invited to submit the name of one faculty member who will be provided with a certificate from ARRO. You may consider physicists, biologists or other faculty members if appropriate. Please discuss this award with your fellow residents and ask your chief to submit one nomination from your program for Faculty Educator of the Year. One nominee per institution. Be sure to submit your program’s nominee to ARRO before April 18, 2025.

Nominations for ARRO Resident Educator of the Year now open!
We are excited to announce that nominations are now open for the ARRO Resident Educator of the Year award! The ARRO Resident Educator of the Year Award will honor residents who demonstrate outstanding dedication, innovation and effectiveness in teaching medical students, residents and other colleagues in radiation oncology. All PGY2-PGY5 radiation oncology residents are eligible to be nominated. Individuals can nominate themselves or others for this award. Residents and attendings are eligible to submit nominations.

For each nomination, the following are required: nominee email, institution of training, CV, and a letter of support for the nominee explaining why this individual deserves the award. Please submit your nomination for ARRO Resident Educator of the Year Award to ARRO before the deadline on April 18, 2025.

Upcoming webinar! ACS CAN and ASTRO: Collaborating for Patients
Learn more about how ASTRO and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) work together to make cancer a top priority for public officials and candidates at the federal, state and local levels of government during a live webinar on April 8, 12:00 p.m. Eastern time. Neha Vapiwala, MD, FASTRO, ASTRO President-elect, Mustafa Basree, DO, MS, ASTRO’s Government Relations Fellow and senior member of the ARRO Executive Committee, and Jeff Martin of ACSCAN, will share more on each organization’s efforts and how you can get involved. This webinar is designed specifically for residents, time will be reserved for Q&A. You can also submit questions in advance when you register. The webinar will be recorded. Register today!

Confused by the new Authorized User status changes??
ASTRO has created a new page reviewing AU status and how to obtain it as a resident. You can either become an AU under the license of your training program, which will then streamline adding you as an AU at subsequent programs/institutions in your career. Your training program can also fill out NRC forms upon graduation addressing requirements. The ARRO Communications team will be sharing resources this month on X and Instagram reviewing changes. View the PowerPoint with further information and direction on how to fill out the NRC forms.

And more education @ The Resource Corner!
New Locally-Advanced Cervical Cancer ARROCase is out! Check out our new cervical cancer case created by Allison Matous, MD, and mentor Shauna McVorran, MD, both from Dartmouth Cancer Center. There have been several updates to the literature since our 2013 cervical cancer ARROCase and this provides a nice current study resource for residents. If you’re interested in contributing an ARROcase, please let our ARROCase leads know, Allison Matous, MD, and Fara Dayani Dardashtii, MD, MAS.

ARROAnki, say what?
Did you use Anki in medical school and wish there were decks you could use to study radiation oncology? Well, you’re in luck as members of ARRO Education Subcommittee have been working hard to put together a number of decks as another medium to provide for residents interested in electronic spaced-repetition learning. Ten decks have been released on www.ankiweb.net which can be found by searching the term ARROAnki_* (e.g., ARROAnki_Heme). We are in the process of uploading this to our website. Note that these were not vetted by faculty, so if you notice inaccuracies or mistakes, please let us know either through www.ankiweb.net, emailing us or via social media. Happy studying!

Registration is now open for the 2025 Virtual Annual Refresher Course
Join your colleagues online from April 9-11 for this comprehensive review of the latest treatment methods and core competencies for the major disease sites. This is a great review as you prepare to take your Boards and discounted rates are available for students and members-in-training. The Annual Refresher Course is a live virtual meeting led by expert presenters. Three eContouring sessions are included where you experience hands-on practice cases in Upper GI, Breast and Lymphomas. Along with the Refresher onDemand, there are two bonus onDemand presentations on pediatrics and vulvar and vaginal cancers! Registrants receive discounts on several add-on courses from the ASTRO Annual Meeting. Learn more and register!

Join us at the ROECSG Spring Symposium in May
This year, ASTRO is co-sponsoring the Radiation Oncology Education Collaborative Study Group (ROECSG) Annual Spring Symposium on Friday, May 16, in Houston, Texas! This year’s theme is “Radiation Oncology Education as a Driver of Patient-Centered Care.” Register today to attend! Accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics (aka the Red Journal).

Final call! ARRO Executive Committee Nomination Deadline Extended to March 10
ARRO is now accepting nominations for the 2025-2027 ARRO Executive Committee! Current PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents are eligible for a two-year, nationally elected appointment beginning in May 2025. The deadline to submit nominations has been extended. You may nominate yourself.

Nominations should include a current CV, a statement identifying the one subcommittee to which the nominee is applying to lead (Education, Communications, Global Health, or Equity and Inclusion) along with their vision and ideas for ARRO (one-page maximum), and a letter of good standing from the nominee’s residency program director.

See further details and submit your nomination and send any questions via email to ARRO by Monday, March 10, 2025, 11:59 p.m. Pacific time.

Remember to follow ARRO on social media!
We at ARRO provide resident input into professional organizations, disseminate information and foster communication among residents. Follow us on our freshly minted ARRO Instagram (arro_org) or Twitter/X where we post about events, scholarships, grants, educational resources, networking opportunities and more. Direct Messaging on both Instagram and Twitter/X is the fastest way to reach us.

Connect with ASTRO Leadership on the ROhub Student Community
Looking for an easy and direct way to connect with ASTRO leadership with questions and issues important to you? Join the conversation with ARRO leadership and ASTRO Board members, including Sameer Keole, MD, FASTRO; Howard Sandler, MD, MS, FASTRO; and Jeff Michalski, MD, MBA, FASTRO. Introduce yourself to the community on the Introduce Yourself thread and feel free to pose any questions you have about the field of radiation oncology. All student, graduate student, and PGY-1 members have already been subscribed to daily digests and added to the community.

To view the community, navigate to ROhub and select My Communities or visit the community directly .

You can also enroll in Mentor Match, hosted on ROhub, today in a few easy steps .