Medical physics practice and training in Ghana |
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| Institution: | 1. Robarts Research Institute, 1151 Richmond Street North, London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7;2. Department of Medical Biophysics, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St North, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C1;3. Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada;1. Pediatric Surgery Division, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, 6701 Fannin Street CC1210, Houston, TX 77030, USA;2. Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Fegan 3, Boston, MA 02445, USA;3. Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University School of Medicine, 705 Riley Hospital Drive, Room 2500, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5109, USA;4. Pediatric Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 4650 Sunset Boulevard, MS 100, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA |
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| Abstract: | Medical physics has been an indispensable and strategic stakeholder in the delivery of radiological services to the healthcare system of Ghana. The practice has immensely supported radiation oncology and medical imaging facilities over the years, while the locally established training programme continues to produce human resource to feed these facilities. The training programme has grown to receive students from other African countries in addition to local students. Ghana has been recognised by the International Atomic Energy Agency as Regional Designated Centre for Academic Training of Medical Physicists in Africa. The Ghana Society for Medical Physics collaborates with the School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences of the University of Ghana to ensure that training offered to medical physicists meet international standards, making them clinically qualified. The Society has also worked together with other bodies for the passage of the Health Profession’s Regulatory Bodies Act, giving legal backing to the practice of medical physics and other allied health professions in Ghana. The country has participated in a number of International Atomic Energy Agency’s projects on medical physics and has benefited from its training courses, fellowships and workshops, as well as those of other agencies such as International Organization for Medical Physics. This has placed Ghana’s medical physicists in good position to practice competently and improve healthcare. |
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| Keywords: | Medical physicist Radiotherapy Diagnostic radiology Nuclear medicine |
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