2016 AAPM Annual Meeting
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Session Title: Do the Right Thing
Question 1: Which is an example of plagiarism?
Reference:On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research published by The National Academy Press, Washington, 1995 edition.
Choice A:Making up data or results.
Choice B:Changing or misreporting data results.
Choice C:Using the ideas or words of another person without giving appropriate credit
Choice D:All of the above
Question 2: If we find minor infractions acceptable research suggests that we are likely to accept increasingly major infractions as long as each violation is only incrementally more serious than the preceding one.
Reference:Ethical Breakdowns, Harvad Business Review, Apr 2011 Bazerman and Tenbrunsel
Choice A:True.
Choice B:False.
Question 3: The Definition of Situational Ethics is:
Reference:Improving Your Workpace Through Ethics, C. Hylton; CG Hylton & Associates Inc.
Choice A:Conduct and behavior influenced by needs and wants of a particular situation.
Choice B:Conduct and behavior guided by a rigid code of behavior applied uniformly.
Choice C:Conduct and behavior applied without regard for legal or moral constraints.
Question 4: The AAPM Code of Ethics is a strictly enforced set of laws regarding every detail of a Member’s thoughts, words and deeds.
Reference:AAPM Code of Ethics, https://www.aapm.org/org/policies/details.asp?id=260&type=PP¤t=true
Choice A:True.
Choice B:False.
Question 5: According to the AAPM Code of Ethics a Member should not lie to a patient at the request of a caretaker in order to withhold information about the patient’s disease.
Reference:AAPM Code of Ethics, https://www.aapm.org/org/policies/details.asp?id=260&type=PP¤t=true
Choice A:Yes.
Choice B:No.
Choice C:I don't know.
Choice D:It depends.
Question 6: Which is the best algorithm for optimizing multidimensional ethical problems with conflicting boundary conditions and scoring function constraints?
Reference:AAPM Code of Ethics, https://www.aapm.org/org/policies/details.asp?id=260&type=PP¤t=true
Choice A:Gradient descent.
Choice B:Simulated annealing.
Choice C:Simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation.
Choice D:Executive decision.
Choice E:Careful deliberation informed by compassion and empathy.
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