AFOMP Policy Statement No. 3: recommendations for the education and training of medical physicists in AFOMP countries

• Published in: Australasian physical & engineering sciences in medicine Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 303 - 307
• Main Authors: Round, W. H., Ng, K. H., Healy, B., Rodriguez, L., Thayalan, K., Tang, F., Fukuda, S., Srivastava, R., Krisanachinda, A., Shiau, A. C., Deng, X., Han, Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2011; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Asia; Biological and Medical Physics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Biomedicine; Biophysics; Certification; Certification - organization & administration; Education, Medical - standards; Educational Status; Health education; Health Physics - education; Humans; Medical and Radiation Physics; Medicine - standards; Physicists; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Review Paper; Societies - organization & administration; Training; Asia; Training; Medical physicists; Education; Certification; Residents
• ISSN: 0158-9938; 1879-5447
• DOI: 10.1007/s13246-011-0091-3

AFOMP recognizes that clinical medical physicists should demonstrate that they are competent to practice their profession by obtaining appropriate education, training and supervised experience in the specialties of medical physics in which they practice, as well as having a basic knowledge of other specialties. To help its member countries to achieve this, AFOMP has developed this policy to provide guidance when developing medical physicist education and training programs. The policy is compatible with the standards being promoted by the International Organization for Medical Physics and the International Medical Physics Certification Board.