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Ad Hoc Committee on Medical Physics 3.0

The AHC will pursue the following goals:

(A) In Clinical Practice, medical physicists involved in clinical practice should:

  1. be more relevant to the clinical setting
  2. learn leadership skills to be more impactful in the clinical setting
  3. reinvigorate scientific excellence across the board
  4. refresh their competency in statistics and data analytics
  5. in addition to “what” and “how”, better understand “why”
  6. position themselves to be the “scientist in the room”
  7. refresh their knowledge with respect to human anatomy and physiology
  8. have competence and a skill set to interact with other peer healthcare professionals (eg, physicians, hospital administrators)
  9. have an integrated approach in their practice; have a seat at the table routinely with all other professional responsible for healthcare delivery (eg, engaging radiation oncologists, radiologists, therapists, technologists)
  10. seek more ways to add value to clinical practice
  11. seek better understanding and embrace ethical principles in patient care
  12. seek clinical enhancements that enhances the precision and personalization of patient care
  13. define and enact physics practices that are most relevant to clinical utility and quality
  14. include optimization of clinical procedures and retrospective analysis of care data, in addition to equipment assurance and inspection
  15. seek clinical engagement beyond current spheres of radiology and radiation oncology

(B) In Education of physicians, residents, graduate students, and others; develop tools for medical physicists involved in teaching to better:

  1. understand the use of the flipped classroom environment
  2. engage learners in group learning sessions with follow-up
  3. incorporate thought-provoking questions throughout the educational process
  4. move beyond self-assessment modules (SAMs) for challenging student’s knowledge
  5. understand ethics as it pertains to the educational setting
  6. use new technologies for learning, including more prevalent use of tablets, interactive learning sessions, cell phone based response systems, and “Apple TV” like interfaces in a Wi-Fi learning environment
  7. develop proper question formats and constructs for assessing learner knowledge
  8. engage underrepresented groups to be exposed to different learning environments for better comprehension based on their background
  9. embrace new topics that need to be integrated in educational curriculum of modern medical physics (ie, charges A, C, and D)

(C) In Research, medical physicists involved in research should:

  1. learn the basic tenants of manuscript preparation (younger scientists)
  2. learn the basic tenets of grant preparation (younger scientists)
  3. better understand the role of manuscript peer review as a referee or associate editor
  4. better understand grant review procedures, hierarchy, and scoring calibration
  5. have competency in ethics pertaining to research including clinical trials and HIPAA
  6. learn the basic tenants of mentoring and mentor/mentee relationships
  7. understand principles of benevolence in career development
  8. understand the types and essence of innovation in medical physics science

(D) In Administration, medical physicists involved in administrative tasks across all areas of medical physics profession should:

  1. understand the essential value proposition of medical physics and the unique role that medical physics plays in the healthcare enterprise
  2. have a contextual understanding of medical physics and be able to delineate relative attributes and roles of medical physics, physician practice, and biomedical engineering
  3. understand the differences between leadership and management
  4. have basic leadership competency of self-awareness, visioning, organization, project management, personnel management, finance, and rhetoric (verbal, pictorial, written)