AFOMP policy statement no. 4: Recommendations for continuing professional development systems for medical physicists in AFOMP countries

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 393-397

  Round, W H ^a   Ng, K H ^b   Healy, B ^c   Rodriguez, L ^d   Thayalan, K ^e   Tang, F ^f   Fukuda, S ^g   Srivastava, R ^h   Krisanachinda, A ⁱ   Shiau, A C ^j   Deng, X ^k   Han, Y ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c TOOWOOMBA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Jose R Reyes Memorial Medical Center   (Philippines)

^e Medical Physics Division   (India)

^f QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^h BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital Chitwan ^*  (Nepal)

ⁱ CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^j FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^k SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^l Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

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Author keywords

Continuing professional development; Continuing professional education; Medical physicists; Policy

Indexed keywords

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PHYSICISTS; MEDICAL PHYSICS; MEMBER COUNTRIES; POLICY STATEMENTS; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

BIOPHYSICS; PUBLIC POLICY;

RADIOLOGY;

ASIA; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; HEALTH PHYSICS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REVIEW; STANDARD;

ASIA; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; HEALTH PHYSICS; OCEANIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877134399     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-012-0163-z     Document Type: Review

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