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Redefining and reinvigorating the role of physics in clinical medicine: A Report from the AAPM Medical Physics 3.0 Ad Hoc Committee
Author(s) -
Samei Ehsan,
Pawlicki Todd,
Bourland Daniel,
Chin Erika,
Das Shiva,
Fox Mary,
Freedman D Jay,
Hangiandreou Nicholas,
Jordan David,
Martin Melissa,
Miller Robin,
Pavlicek William,
Pavord Daniel,
Schober Lisa,
Thomadsen Bruce,
Whelan Brendan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1002/mp.13087
Subject(s) - expansive , excellence , health care , medical physicist , engineering ethics , health physics , medicine , physics , medical education , political science , medical physics , engineering , nuclear medicine , radiation protection , compressive strength , law , thermodynamics
Derived from 2 yr of deliberations and community engagement, Medical Physics 3.0 ( MP 3.0) is an effort commissioned by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine ( AAPM ) to devise a framework of strategies by which medical physicists can maintain and improve their integral roles in, and contributions to, health care and its innovation under conditions of rapid change and uncertainty. Toward that goal, MP 3.0 advocates a broadened and refreshed model of sustainable excellence by which medical physicists can and should contribute to health care. The overarching conviction of MP 3.0 is that every healthcare facility can benefit from medical physics and every patient's care can be improved by a medical physicist. This large and expansive challenge necessitates a range of strategies specific to each area of medical physics: clinical practice, research, product development, and education. The present paper offers a summary of the Phase 1 deliberations of the MP 3.0 initiative pertaining to strategic directions of the discipline primarily but not exclusively oriented toward the clinical practice of medical physics in the United States.