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AFOMP POLICY STATEMENT No. 2: recommended clinical radiation oncology medical physicist staffing levels in AFOMP countries

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This document is the second of a series of policy statements being issued by the Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP). The document was developed by the AFOMP Professional Development Committee (PDC) and was released by the AFOMP Council in 2009. The main purpose of the document is to give guidance as to how many medical physicists are required to staff a radiation oncology department. Strict guidelines are difficult to define as work practices vary from country-to-country and from hospital-to-hospital. A calculation scheme is presented to aid in estimating medical physics staffing requirements that is primarily based on equipment levels and patient numbers but also with allowances for staff training, professional development and leave requirements.

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  1. Department of Engineering, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, 3240, New Zealand

    W. H. Round

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology Centre, Parkway Hospitals (Singapore), Gleneagles, Singapore

    Y. K. Tay

  3. Department of Biomedical Imaging, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    K. H. Ng

  4. Department of Clinical Oncology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China

    K. Y. Cheung

  5. Research Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), Chiba-shi, Japan

    S. Fukuda

  6. Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

    Y. Han

  7. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ji Nan University, Guang Zhou, China

    Y. X. Huang

  8. Department of Radiological Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

    H. J. Kim

  9. Department of Radiology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

    A. Krisanachinda

  10. Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    H. L. Liu

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Round, W.H., Tay, Y.K., Ng, K.H. et al. AFOMP POLICY STATEMENT No. 2: recommended clinical radiation oncology medical physicist staffing levels in AFOMP countries. Australas Phys Eng Sci Med 33, 7–10 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13246-010-0003-y

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