2018 AAPM Annual Meeting
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Session Title: Role of the Diagnostic Physicist
Question 1: What attributes any clinical physicist need to practice to be most effective in his/her work?
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Choice A:To think like a scientist, act like a clinician, interact like a campaigner.
Choice B:To think like a theoretician, test like a experimentalist, solve like a mathematician.
Choice C:To practice like a physicist, manage like a manager, balance like an accountant.
Choice D:To test like an inspector, report like a reporter, educate like a teacher.
Question 2: Which of these are the essential tasks of a clinical medical physicist?
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Choice A:Research, clinical service, and education.
Choice B:Compliance, quality assurance, and education.
Choice C:Acceptance testing, quality control, radiation safety.
Choice D:Technology assessment, protocol optimization, and quality monitoring.
Question 3: What is the essential calling of a clinical imaging physicist?
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Choice A:To facilitate research of their clinical colleagues.
Choice B:To assure highest quality, consistent, and safe patient imaging.
Choice C:To ensure compliance with all applicable guidelines.
Choice D:To make sure the vendors deliver what they have promised.
Question 4: The leading reason that healthcare facilities choose to use a consulting physicist versus an in-house solution is:
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Choice A:The facility is unable to hire or retain an in-house physicist.
Choice B:Consulting physicists are less expensive than in-house physicists.
Choice C:The facility has less work than having a full-time physicist would warrant.
Choice D:The facility is dissatisfied with their in-house physicist and decides to hire a consultant.
Question 5: The biggest current challenge of providing high-quality medical physics services in a consulting environment is:
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Choice A:The need for physicists to proficiently test hundreds of equipment types and models.
Choice B:Facility scheduling, access and vendor credentialing.
Choice C:Travel times can make the cost of certain services prohibitive.
Choice D:Educating and informing physicists about the consulting option.
Question 6: The services that are both the most consultative in nature yet also the most complex to provide in a consulting context are:
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Choice A:Joint Commission accreditation testing.
Choice B:Dose optimization services.
Choice C:ACR accreditation testing.
Choice D:Shielding design and validation services.
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