Education and Training of Medical Physicists in Europe

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Education and Training of Medical Physicists in
Europe

• Dr V. TsapakiKonstantopoulio General Hospital,
  Athens, Greece
• virginia_at_otenet.gr

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European BSS 17 January 2014
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EU BSS
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What are the initiatives of EFOMP?Education
and Training of Medical Physicists in Europe
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www.efomp.org
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The EFOMP Policy Statement 12.1
Recommendations on Medical Physics Education and
Training in Europe 2014
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EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS
http//lemoigne.web.cern.ch/lemoigne/esiweb/ESMPnn
14.htm

• Six week-long courses
• Medical Imaging(Radiology Ultrasound)
• Medical Imaging (Nuclear Medicine MRI)
• Medical Computing
• Physics of Modern Radiotherapy
• Brachytherapy
• Radiation Protection

Centre Universitaire et de Recherche
dArchamps French Geneva Campus
EFOMP offers 2 bursaries to cover one weeks
registration fees
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EFOMP School for Medical Physics Experts -
Prague, Summer 2013   Clinical Medical Device
Management Specification, Acceptance testing,
Commissioning, QC and Advanced Applications in
Whole-body PET/CT   July 4 July 6, 2013 Prague,
Czech Republic  
http//www.csfm.cz/summer2013.html
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• EU contribution 1,658,000
• Aug. 1, 2013 Jul 31, 2016

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Objectives

• to create a network of excellent teaching centers
  in diagnostic and interventional RX to prepare
  courses at a sufficiently high level to bring
  the MP ------ gt MPE
• to set up a multicampus Educational and Training
  platform (for course material, on-line teaching
  activities, )
• to get the course either accredited or serve as
  an example in as many as possible Member States
  (sustainability of the network)

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Partners of the Eutempe-Rx project
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Moduleswww.eutempe-rx.eu
Number Title Lead
1 Developments of the profession and the challenges of the MPE Legal aspects, professional matters, communication and risk assessment, incidents and accidents, today and tomorrow. Raising the public profile of the profession. Basics of teaching RX users, including the RPE Dr. C. Caruana Prof. E. Vano
2 Radiation biology for MPEs Prof. A. Ottolenghi
3 Monte Carlo simulation of the complete X-ray imaging chain Dr. J. Sempau
4 Fundamental physics of X-rays energy, absorption and their phase Prof. M. Gambaccini
5 Antropomorphic phantoms Dr. K. Bliznakova
6 From routine QA to advanced QA and performance testing Prof. H. Bosmans, Prof. F. Zanca, Dr. N. Marshall Prof. E. Vano
Blended learning (online and face-to-face
learning)
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Moduleswww.eutempe-rx.eu
Number Title Lead
7 Advanced measurements of the performance of X-ray imaging systems Prof. K. Young A. McKenzie
8 CT imaging and dose optimized with objective means Prof. F. Verdun
9 Achieving quality in the medical physics aspect of breast cancer screening R. van Engen, W. Veltkamp
10 High dose X-ray procedures in Interventional radiology and cardiology Dr. R. Padovani Prof. E. Vano
11 Dosimetry, from conceptus to the adolescent Prof. J. Damilakis
12 Personnel dosimetry, including techniques to communicate practical results to the users (RPE) Dr. M. Borowski, prof. Fiebich
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Example of module 11Radiation dose management
of pregnant patients, pregnant staff and
paediatric patients in diagnostic and
interventional radiology
University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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Send your application form to
info_at_eutempe-rx.eu
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EUTEMPE-RX Liaison Officer between
NMOs-EFOMPsend to info_at_eutempe-rx.eu

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Finland
• Greece
• Italy
• Latvia
• Netherlands
• Ukraine
• UK

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FUTURE PLANS FOR PROJECTS

• Eutempe RT
• Eutempe-NM

Horizon EU Research and Innovation programme
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Thank you for your attention!