The new FAMPO Executive Committee following the elections done in 2017: FAMPO will continue its progress to serve the medical physics community in Africa under the lead of those volunteers and the support of all its members and the mother organization IOMP.

IOMP has absolutely no connection with the so called “ICMP 2017” (19th International Conference on Medical Physics San Diego, USA, December 18 – 19, 2017). Any invitations or emails from conference organizers do not originate from IOMP.

Latest WHO Publication with involvement from IOMP: List of Priority Medical Devices for Cancer Management

With the mission to support countries to make progress towards universal health coverage by designing health services for people instead of diseases and health institutions, WHO has launched people centric services so that everyone gets the right care, at the right time, in the right place. More information>>>>>> See the video>>>> This might translate to...

With the mission to support countries to make progress towards universal health coverage by designing health services for people instead of diseases and health institutions, WHO has launched people centric services so that everyone gets the right care, at the right time, in the right place. More information.  This might translate to People-centered appropriate and...

UN Scientific Committee Concludes 64th Session VIENNA, 2 June (UN Information Service) – The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) today concluded its 64th session, with a call for Member States to submit scientific data on radiation exposure of patients and workers to the UNSCEAR...

International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology (ICARO2)

This publication addresses medical devices that can be used for management of cancer and specifcally describes medical devices for six types of cancer: breast, cervical, colorectal, leukemia, lung and prostate. This publication is the outcome of a project developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to the need...

IOMP informs all its member organisations that IAEA is organizing a Conference on Radiation Protection in Medicine – Achieving Change in Practice on 11-15 Dec 2017 at IAEA Vienna. More information about this important Conference, reviewing actions taken and results achieved after the Bonn Conference in 2012, can be found here.

The new DIRAC web page is available with a new web interface and visual features. Users can view and upload information on individual radiotherapy centres and also data summaries for countries, regions and for the entire world. While the content is the same, the new DIRAC website is more detailed...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is organizing the second International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology (ICARO-2), following the success of the first conference (ICARO-1), which was held in 2009. The advances in radiotherapy in the last years have been striking, although numerous challenges are still to be faced,...