Medical physicist
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The medical physicist is a professional who applies the principles and methods of physics in medicine, in the areas of prevention, diagnosis and treatment, in order to ensure the quality of services provided and the prevention of risks to the patients, and members of the public in general. The medical physicist plays a fundamental role in all fields of application of physics to medicine, but particularly in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The scientific and technological progress in medical physics has been huge and led to a series of consequences that require the integration of different skills. The "medical services" provided to patients undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic treatments, must therefore be the result of different but complementary skills.[1]
See also
- Clinical laboratory scientist (clinical scientist)
- List of publications in physics: Biophysics and medical physics
- Modernising Scientific Careers
- Physicist
References
- ^ Guibelalde E., Christofides S., Caruana C. J., Evans S. van der Putten W. (2012). Guidelines on the Medical Physics Expert' a project funded by the European Commission
External links
- Human Health Campus, The official website of the International Atomic Energy Agency dedicated to Professionals in Radiation Medicine. This site is managed by the Division of Human Health, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
- Canadian Organization of Medical Physicist - Organisation canadienne des physiciens médicaux
- The American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- medicalphysicsweb.org from the Institute of Physics
- AIP Medical Physics portal
- University of Toronto - Medical Biophysics Department
- Journal of Biophysics
- Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) - UK
- European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP)