| Question 1: What is the most important metric to evaluate an academic medical physics graduate program? |
| Reference: | Woolston, C. Graduate survey: Uncertain futures. Nature 526, 597–600 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7574-597a |
| Choice A: | State of the art space |
| Choice B: | Access to the latest instrument and software |
| Choice C: | Number of papers per student |
| Choice D: | Track record of long term career growths of its trainees |
| Choice E: | Stress level |
| Question 2: Which of the following is NOT an example of personalized career development? |
| Reference: | Macaulay et. al, The Advisory Dean Program: A Personalized Approach to Academic and Career Advising for Medical Students, Academic Medicine, Volume 82, 718 (2007) |
| Choice A: | Provide students with effective career counseling. |
| Choice B: | Link a student with appropriate faculty based on research interest. |
| Choice C: | Offer continuous guidance to students to meet their needs. |
| Choice D: | Ask all students to complete CAMPEP-required courses. |
| Question 3: Leading universities place their primary investment and mission goals around: |
| Reference: | BW Pogue, R. Zhang, DJ Gladstone, A roadmap for research in medical physics via academic medical centers: The DIVERT Model, Medical Physics 2021 Jun;48(6):3151-3159. https://aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mp.14849 |
| Choice A: | Progress in education more than research activity. |
| Choice B: | Alignment of their clinical and basic research missions in all departments. |
| Choice C: | Discoveries and inventions that change human understanding & capabilities. |
| Choice D: | High clinical trial enrollment numbers. |
| Choice E: | Creating high technology centers that showcase their clinical medicine capabilities. |
| Question 4: Which of the following does not foster creativity in graduate education: |
| Reference: | Prausnitz, J. M. "Toward encouraging creativity in students." Chemical Engineering Education 19.1 (1985): 22-25. |
| Choice A: | A qualifier exam that requires the student to independently develop a hypothesis testing proposal |
| Choice B: | Occupy less than 60% of the student research time with prescribed research projects |
| Choice C: | Quickly point out the infeasibility of a student’s idea so he/she can focus on the well-vetted ideas |
| Choice D: | Encourage students to speak up in group meetings proposing alternative approaches |
| Choice E: | Emphasize less on how many papers a student produces |
| Question 5: Student’s emotional intelligence predicts success in graduate school because: |
| Reference: | MacCann, Carolyn, et al. "Emotional intelligence predicts academic performance: A meta-analysis." Psychological Bulletin 146.2 (2020): 150. |
| Choice A: | The student is able to regulate negative emotions |
| Choice B: | The student is able to manage the social world around them |
| Choice C: | Emotional intelligence competencies might overlap with academic competencies |
| Choice D: | All of the above |
| Question 6: Mentorship can be beneficial throughout our careers and can contribute to growth at all stages. Select the following best answer: |
| Reference: | Teshima J, McKean AJS, Myint MT, Aminololama-Shakeri S, Joshi SV, Seritan AL, Hilty DM. Developmental Approaches to Faculty Development. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2019 Sep;42(3):375-387. doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2019.05.008 |
| Choice A: | Mentorship is helpful in the early career stage to help develop goals and professional identity. |
| Choice B: | Mentorship is helpful in the mid-career stage to explore new skills, including leadership and project management, and to help with role transitions. |
| Choice C: | Mentorship is helpful in the advanced career stage as the focus changes to contributing to community and changes in role and power. |
| Choice D: | All of the above |
| Question 7: In order to jump into a career in industry, one needs to study and understand everything about the new job, which is completely different to the traditional medical physics experiences. |
| Reference: | Crafting Your Job into a Calling | Office of the President https://president.yale.edu/president/yale-talk/crafting-your-job-calling |
| Choice A: | True |
| Choice B: | False |
| Question 8: What are some of the negative consequences of perfectionism? |
| Reference: | Garratt-Reed et al. (2018), Is perfectionism associated with academic burnout through repetitive negative thinking? PeerJ 6:e5004; DOI 10.7717/peerj.5004 |
| Choice A: | Lower number of total publications and research performance |
| Choice B: | Burnout |
| Choice C: | Repetitive negative thinking |
| Choice D: | All of the above |
| Question 9: According to a study by Atkins et al, which of the following plays a critical role in shaping scientific identity among underrepresented minority (URM) science, technology, Engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students? |
| Reference: | Atkins et al. “Looking at Myself in the Future”: how mentoring shapes scientific identity for STEM students from underrepresented groups. IJ STEM Ed 7, 42 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-020-00242-3 |
| Choice A: | Mentorship in scientific research |
| Choice B: | Having multiple mentors |
| Choice C: | Peer and near-peer mentorship |
| Choice D: | Being emotionally supported by mentors |
| Question 10: In a 2016 emotional competency survey of medical physicists within the AAPM, the following leadership trait was identified as needing improvement: |
| Reference: | Gronberg M, Wang D; Medical Physics Leadership Academy (MPLA) Cases Subcommittee, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Introduction of Medical Physics Leadership Academy (MPLA) case studies. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2021 Mar;22(3):287 |
| Choice A: | Conflict management |
| Choice B: | Initiative |
| Choice C: | Adaptability |
| Choice D: | Empathy |
| Choice E: | All of the above |
