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

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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.

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  1. AFOMP Policy No 4: Recommendations for Continuing Professional Development Systems in AFOMP Countries will be developed by the AFOMP Professional Development Committee following approval of this Policy by the AFOMP Executive.

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, 3240, New Zealand

    W. H. Round

  2. Department of Biomedical Imaging, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    K. H. Ng

  3. Radiation Oncology Queensland, St Andrews Toowoomba Hospital, Toowoomba, Australia

    B. Healy

  4. Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center, Manila, Philippines

    L. Rodriguez

  5. Medical Physics Division, Dr Kamashi Memorial Hospital, Chennai, India

    K. Thayalan

  6. Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China

    F. Tang

  7. Research Centre for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), Chiba-shi, Japan

    S. Fukuda

  8. Department of Radiation Oncology, BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal

    R. Srivastava

  9. Department of Radiology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

    A. Krisanachinda

  10. Department of Radiation Oncology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    A. C. Shiau

  11. Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

    X. Deng

  12. Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

    Y. Han

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An example pathway to becoming a professional medical physicist. Arrangements are to be decided by the local medical physics association/professional body .

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Round, W.H., Ng, K.H., Healy, B. et al. AFOMP Policy Statement No. 3: recommendations for the education and training of medical physicists in AFOMP countries. Australas Phys Eng Sci Med 34, 303–307 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13246-011-0091-3

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