Evaluation of medical physics training in radiology residency in 67 countries |
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| Institution: | 1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;3. Department of Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand;4. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA;1. Digital Medical Research Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, Shanghai, China;1. Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, University of Toledo, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, OH 43614, United States;2. Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Toledo, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, OH 43614, United States;1. Medical Physics Unit, Azienda USL – IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy;2. Medical Physics Unit, Ospedale San Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli, Roma, Italy;3. Health Physics Unit, Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Pistoia, Italy;4. Health Physics Unit, AOU Careggi, Firenze, Italy;5. Health Physics Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera di Perugia, Perugia, Italy;6. Health Physics Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera di Modena, Modena, Italy;7. Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy;8. Health Physics Unit, Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Firenze, Italy;9. Health Physics Unit, AOU Meyer, Firenze, Italy;10. Medical Physics Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele, Milano, Italy;11. Health Sciences Department, University of Genova, Genova, Italy;12. Medical Physics Unit, Azienda ULSS 3 Serenissima, Mestre, Italy;13. Radiotherapy and Health Physics Unit, IRCCS CROB, Rionero in Vulture – Potenza, Italy;14. Health Physics Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, Roma, Italy;15. Health Physics Unit, ASL Viterbo, Viterbo, Italy;p. Health Physics Unit, Azienda ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana, Treviso, Italy;q. Health Physics Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Cannizzaro, Catania, Italy;r. Health Physics Unit, Azienda USL Toscana Sud Est, Arezzo, Italy;s. Medical and Health Physics Unit, IRCCS AOU San Martino, Genova, Italy;t. Health Physics Unit, ASST, Monza, Italy;u. Medical Physics Unit, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova – IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy;v. Health Physics, Azienda Sanitaria della Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy;w. Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;x. Unit of Medical Physics, Pisa University Hospital “Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana”, Pisa, Italy;1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Miami, 1475 NW 12th Ave, Suite 1500, Miami, FL 33136, United States;2. Radiation Oncology and Diagnostic Imaging, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Dr., Tampa, FL 33612, United States;1. Medical Physics department, Teaching Hospitals Ospedali Riuniti Umberto I G M Lancisi G Salesi, Ancona, Italy;2. Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy;1. Radiation Safety and Medical Physics Department, University Clinical Centre Sarajevo, Bolnicka 25, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;2. Division of Medical Radiation Physics, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, 221 85 Lund, Sweden;3. Dosimetry Laboratory, Dosimetry and Medical Radiation Physics Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Friedenstrasse 1, Seibersdorf, Austria |
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| Abstract: | PurposeThe main aim of medical physics training in radiology residency is to have appropriate and safer imaging of patients and safety of personnel. The need to have adequate coverage of medical physics and radiation safety in curricula of radiology residency is well perceived, but it is not known how far it is implemented in practice.MethodsWe have analysed the data from 67 countries on medical physics teaching and assessment of residents in radiology programs, considering differences between countries in function of their human development index (HDI).ResultsThe results indicate that teaching of medical physics by radiologists rather than by medical physicists is very common and there is relationship with the developmental status of a country. The majority of countries with very high HDI used a written test (69%) for medical physics topics, often in combination with other subjects (63%). Further, there is lack of direct involvement of medical physicists during the examination phase of residents. Geographically, it can be seen that Latin American countries in particular lack involvement of medical physicists during both the teaching and examination phase.ConclusionThe lack of adequate involvement of medical physicists in training and in the formal examination of radiology residents in both developed and developing countries is a matter of concern with likely implications on patient and staff safety. |
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