Education and Training of Medical Physicists in Europe Dr V. Tsapaki Konstantopoulio General Hospital, Athens, Greece

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1 Education and Training of Medical Physicists in Europe Dr V. Tsapaki Konstantopoulio General Hospital, Athens, Greece virginia@otenet.gr

2 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 2 European BSS 17 January 2014

3 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 3 EU BSS

4 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 4

5 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 5

6 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 What are the initiatives of EFOMP? Education and Training of Medical Physicists in Europe

7 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 www.efomp.org

8 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 The EFOMP Policy Statement 12.1: Recommendations on Medical Physics Education and Training in Europe 2014

9 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 Centre Universitaire et de Recherche d‘Archamps French Geneva Campus EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS http://lemoigne.web.cern.ch/lemoigne/esiweb/ESMPnn14.htm Six week-long courses Medical Imaging(Radiology & Ultrasound) Medical Imaging (Nuclear Medicine & MRI) Medical Computing Physics of Modern Radiotherapy Brachytherapy Radiation Protection EFOMP offers 2 bursaries to cover one week’s registration fees

10 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 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

11 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014

12 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 EU contribution: € 1,658,000 Aug. 1, 2013 – Jul 31, 2016

13 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 Objectives (1)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 ------ > MPE (2)to set up a multicampus Educational and Training platform (for course material, on-line teaching activities, …) (3)to get the course either accredited or serve as an example in as many as possible Member States (sustainability of the network)

14 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 Partners of the Eutempe-Rx project

15 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 NumberTitleLead 1Developments 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 2Radiation biology for MPEsProf. A. Ottolenghi 3Monte Carlo simulation of the complete X-ray imaging chainDr. J. Sempau 4Fundamental physics of X-rays: energy, absorption and their phase Prof. M. Gambaccini 5Antropomorphic phantomsDr. K. Bliznakova 6From routine QA to advanced QA and performance testingProf. H. Bosmans, Prof. F. Zanca, Dr. N. Marshall & Prof. E. Vano Blended learning (online and face-to-face learning) Modules www.eutempe-rx.eu

16 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 Modules www.eutempe-rx.eu NumberTitleLead 7Advanced measurements of the performance of X-ray imaging systems Prof. K. Young & A. McKenzie 8CT imaging and dose optimized with objective meansProf. F. Verdun 9Achieving quality in the medical physics aspect of breast cancer screening R. van Engen, W. Veltkamp 10High dose X-ray procedures in Interventional radiology and cardiology Dr. R. Padovani & Prof. E. Vano 11Dosimetry, from conceptus to the adolescentProf. J. Damilakis 12Personnel dosimetry, including techniques to communicate practical results to the users (RPE) Dr. M. Borowski, prof. Fiebich

17 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 Example of module 11: Radiation dose management of pregnant patients, pregnant staff and paediatric patients in diagnostic and interventional radiology University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

18 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 Send your application form to: info@eutempe-rx.eu

19 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 EUTEMPE-RX Liaison Officer between NMOs-EFOMP send to : info@eutempe-rx.eu Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Finland Greece Italy Latvia Netherlands Ukraine UK

20 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 FUTURE PLANS FOR PROJECTS Eutempe –RT Eutempe-NM 20 Horizon EU Research and Innovation programme

21 ΕΝΩΣΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ13/12/2014 Thank you for your attention!