Question 1: 1. True or False: The AAPM has a Working Group dedicated to growing resources and addressing the needs of non-clinical physics professionals. |
Reference: | https://www.aapm.org/org/structure/default.asp?committee_code=WGNC |
Choice A: | True |
Choice B: | False |
Question 2: AAPM members of any membership level can email the Chair what types of AAPM groups and ask to be a part of that group as a Guest member: |
Reference: | aapm.org |
Choice A: | Committees |
Choice B: | Subcommittees |
Choice C: | Working Groups |
Choice D: | All of the Above |
Question 3: What is the name of the prominent professional organization for supporting physics education in the United States, including undergraduate education |
Reference: | http:// aapt.org |
Choice A: | American Society of Physics |
Choice B: | American Association of Physics Teachers |
Choice C: | Teachers in Physics |
Question 4: Which of these are peer-reviewed journals that can support teaching undergraduate physics? |
Reference: | https://www.aapt.org/Publications/ajp.cfm
https://aapt.scitation.org/journal/pte
https://journals.aps.org/prper |
Choice A: | American Journal of Physics |
Choice B: | The Physics Teacher |
Choice C: | Physical Review Physics Education Research |
Choice D: | All of the Above |
Question 5: Industry jobs for medical physicists that have worked in hospital/university environments are very narrow in scope and hard to come by. |
Reference: | There are huge number of jobs that a trained medical physicists would be great at in industry. There are not only jobs that wants to leverage the experiences of a clinical physicist but also skills that have been acquired throughout a clinical career can be very useful in many different types of jobs, such as in education, training, product development, research, management etc. |
Choice A: | True |
Choice B: | False |
Question 6: Excelling as a “non-clinical” medical physicist within industry means you must have: |
Reference: | Knowledge is important but how to apply the knowledge and understand how that could fit into the new working environment can help one succeed in a non-clinical environment. |
Choice A: | PhD |
Choice B: | MBA |
Choice C: | Both a. and b. |
Choice D: | Understand your knowledge, experiences and value to apply them in a different environment |
Choice E: | >10 years of experience as a medical physicist |