A comprehensive SWOT audit of the role of the biomedical physicist in the education of healthcare professionals in Europe |
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| Authors: | C.J. Caruana M. Wasilewska-Radwanska A. Aurengo P.P. Dendy V. Karenauskaite M.R. Malisan J.H. Meijer D. Mihov V. Mornstein E. Rokita E. Vano M. Weckstrom M. Wucherer |
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| Affiliation: | 1. EFOMP, SIG Biomedical Physics Education for the Healthcare Professions (Chair) and Biomedical Physics, Institute of Health Care, University of Malta, Msida, Malta;2. EFOMP, Education Training and Professional Committee (Chair) and AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland;3. Faculty of Medicine, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France;4. Formerly Faculty of Chemistry and Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge England, UK;5. Formerly Faculty of Medicine, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK;6. Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania;7. University Hospital, University of Udine, Udine, Italy;8. VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands;9. Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria;10. Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic;11. Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland;12. Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain;13. Department of Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu, Finland;14. Klinikum Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany;1. Center of Integrated Research, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Rome, Italy;2. European Center for Brain Research (CERC)/Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy;1. Centre for International Child Health University of Melbourne, Royal Children''s Hospital, 3052 Melbourne, VIC, Australia;2. Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, WHO, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland;1. Department of Computer Science, University of Zürich, Switzerland;2. AdNovum Informatik, Switzerland;3. Agroscope, Switzerland;1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, C.S.I Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India;2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, India |
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| Abstract: | Although biomedical physicists provide educational services to the healthcare professions in the majority of universities in Europe, their precise role with respect to the education of the healthcare professions has not been studied systematically. To address this issue we are conducting a research project to produce a strategic development model for the role using the well-established SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) methodology. SWOT based strategic planning is a two-step process: one first carries out a SWOT position audit and then uses the identified SWOT themes to construct the strategic development model. This paper reports the results of a SWOT audit for the role of the biomedical physicist in the education of the healthcare professions in Europe. Internal Strengths and Weaknesses of the role were identified through a qualitative survey of biomedical physics departments and biomedical physics curricula delivered to healthcare professionals across Europe. External environmental Opportunities and Threats were identified through a systematic survey of the healthcare, healthcare professional education and higher education literature and categorized under standard PEST (Political, Economic, Social-Psychological, Technological-Scientific) categories. The paper includes an appendix of terminology. Defined terms are marked with an asterisk in the text. |
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