| Question 1: What are the 3 qualities that managers, colleagues, and clients will assess of someone in a new role, as described in “The Unspoken Rules”? |
| Reference: | Ng, Gorick. 2021. The unspoken rules: secrets to starting your career off right. |
| Choice A: | Competence, Communication, Community |
| Choice B: | Emotional Intelligence, Equanimity, Essentialness |
| Choice C: | Cause, Can-do, Complementary |
| Choice D: | Competence, Commitment, Compatibility |
| Question 2: Which of the following is 1 of the 7 core topics that shall, as a minimum, be included in graduate curriculum course work, per CAMPEP’s Standards for Accreditation of Graduate Educational Programs in Medical Physics, Rev January 2021. |
| Reference: | Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Educational Programs, Jan 2021. Standards for Accreditation of Graduate Educational Programs in Medical Physics. https://www.campep.org/GraduateStandards.pdf |
| Choice A: | Artificial Intelligence |
| Choice B: | Health Policy and Economics |
| Choice C: | Nuclear Medicine |
| Choice D: | Professionalism and Ethics |
| Question 3: Expectancy theory of motivation proposes that an individual will act in a certain way because they are motivated to select a specific behavior over others due to what they perceive the result of that selected behavior would be. Expectancy theory is comprised of what three components? |
| Reference: | Oliver, R. (1974). Expectancy Theory Predictions of Salesmen’s Performance. Journal of Marketing
Research 11(3), 243-253. |
| Choice A: | Need, Action, Expectation |
| Choice B: | Effort, Performance, Outcome |
| Choice C: | Action, Reaction, Adaptation |
| Choice D: | Ask, Follow, React |
| Question 4: To assist in avoiding personal bias to influence decision making, a leader can embrace a(n) _________ versus an “advocacy” approach in a group setting. |
| Reference: | Garvin, D.A., & Roberto, M.A. (2001). What you don’t know about Making decisions. Harvard Business Review, September issue. |
| Choice A: | “lobbying” |
| Choice B: | "agnostic" |
| Choice C: | "altruistic" |
| Choice D: | “inquiry” |
| Question 5: A systems-based view of professionalism holds that: |
| Reference: | Lesser, C. S., Lucey, C. R., Egener, B., Braddock, C. H., Linas, S. L., & Levinson, W. (2010). A behavioral and systems view of professionalism. Jama, 304(24), 2732-2737. |
| Choice A: | Professionalism is an attitudinal competency based on innate character traits. |
| Choice B: | Professionalism is a set of behaviors, enabled by a specific set of skills that can be nurtured and developed over time. |
| Choice C: | Professional behaviors are influenced by the organizational and environmental context in which medical physicists practice. |
| Choice D: | B and C |
| Question 6: Experiential learning is a method for teaching professionalism that: |
| Reference: | Cruess, R. L., & Cruess, S. R. (2006). Teaching professionalism: general principles. Medical teacher, 28(3), 205-208. |
| Choice A: | Encourages self-reflection on personal experience and promotes mindfulness or ‘reflective practice’ |
| Choice B: | Relies on ad-hoc or ‘on the job’ interactions to acquire professionalism skills |
| Choice C: | Replaces or amplifies real-life experiences with guided experiences |
| Choice D: | Compliments the explicit teaching of professional behaviors and values |
| Choice E: | A, C and D |
| Choice F: | A and B |
