International Day of Medical Physics – 2019 IDMP Award
The IOMP is pleased to seek nominations for the IDMP Award. This award recognises excellence in Medical Physics with a particular view of promoting medical physics to a larger audience and highlighting the contributions medical physicists make for patient care. The IDMP Award is linked to the International Day of...
Announcement of John Mallard Awardee – Thomas Rockwell Mackie
The IOMP John Mallard Award honours a medical physicist who has developed an innovation of high scientific quality and who has successfully applied this innovation in clinical practice. Amongst several very high calibre nominations from all over the world the Awards and Honours Committee considered Dr.Thomas Rockwell Mackie as an...
PhD Fellowships for Women Scientists from Science and Technology Lagging Countries
The Fellowship is offered to women scientists from Science and Technology Lagging Countries (STLCs) to undertake PhD research in the Natural, Engineering and Information Technology sciences at a host institute in the South. The call for applications is open. Deadline for submission: 30 May 2019. Please note that an applicant,...
IOMP Travel Assistance for participation in The International Conference on Medical Physics – 2019
INTRODUCTION 1. The goals of the program are: a. To assist medical physicists from IOMP member organizations in developing countries to participate in the 2019 International Conference on Medical Physics (ICMP2019) http://www.icmp2019.org b. To help them become more effective in promoting the advancement of medical physics in their own countries....
EPSM & AOCMP 2019
19th Asia-Oceania Congress of Medical Physics “AOCMP – 2019” In conjunction with Engineering & Physical Scientists in Medicine Conference EPSM-2019 EPSM & AOCMP 28-30 October 2019, Pan Pacific Perth, Perth, Australia Theme: “Elements and Interactions” http://epsm.org.au/welcome-to-epsm-2019
Fellow of IOMP (FIOMP) – 2019
In 2013 the International Organisation for Medical Physics (IOMP) established the category of Fellow of IOMP (FIOMP). This honour aims to recognise significant activities for the international development of medical physics. The next Fellows of IOMP (FIOMP) will be presented at the 24th International Conference on Medical Physics (ICMP), 8th...
IAEA-IOMP Webinar on Patient radiation management in interventional fluoroscopy
16 May 2019 Fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures (FGI) are used with increasing frequency in place of open surgery for a growing number of procedures. FGI usually reduces both hospital-time and procedural-related morbidity. One cost of FGI is the exposure of both patients and staff to radiogenic risks from these procedures....
IOMP Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1, April 2019
The International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) is proud to announce the first issue of its Newsletter. Please click here to open the newsletter. IOMP NEWSLETTER, VOL. 1, NO. 1, APRIL 2019 Table of Contents -IOMP President’s message. – Medical physicist: Approved as a Health Professional in Croatia. – FREE...
FAMPO Newsletter (Vol. 1, No. 2)
FAMPO released the 2nd issue of its organizational newsletter. In this issue… – President’s Corner – IAEA RTC in Zambia – GHC Summit in Tanzania – IOMP Accreditation Board – Secondary Cancer Risks – IAEA Installs New RT Equipment – Egypt and Japan Collaborate in Medical Physics – Train-the-Trainers Workshop...
IAEA Technical Meeting on Radiation Exposure of Patients
The IAEA held a technical meeting 4-6 March 2019 on Cumulative radiation exposure of patients from recurrent radiological imaging procedures. The meeting discussed results available to date and deliberated on interpretation and recommended actions. It was observed that the number of patients with cumulative effective dose (CED) ≥100 mSv is much...