Eudaldo Teresa, Huizenga Henk, Lamm Inger-Lena, McKenzie Alan, Milano Franco, Schlegel Wolfgang, Thwaites David, Heeren Germaine
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
Radiother Oncol. 2004 Feb;70(2):125-35. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2004.02.004.
To provide a guideline curriculum covering theoretical and practical aspects of education and training for medical physicists in radiotherapy within Europe.
Guidelines have been developed for the specialist theoretical knowledge and practical experience required to practice as a medical physicist in radiotherapy. It is assumed that the typical entrant into training will have a good initial degree in the physical sciences, therefore these guidelines also require that and are additional to it. National training programmes of medical physics, radiation physics and radiotherapy physics from a range of European countries and from North America were reviewed by an expert panel set up by the European Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP). A draft document prepared by this group was circulated, via the EFOMP infrastructure, among national professional medical physics societies in Europe for review and comment and was also discussed in an education session in the May 2003 EFOMP scientific meeting in Eindhoven.
The resulting guideline curriculum for education and training of medical physicists in radiotherapy within Europe discusses the EFOMP terms, qualified medical physicist (QMP) and specialist medical physicist (SMP), and the group's view of the links to the EU (Directive 97/43) term, medical physics expert (MPE). The minimum level expected in each topic in the theoretical knowledge and practical experience sections is intended to bring trainees up to the requirements of a QMP. The responses from the circulation of the document to national societies and its discussion were either to agree its content, with no changes required, or to suggest changes, which were taken into account after consideration by the expert group. Following this the guidelines have been endorsed by the parent organisations.
This new joint ESTRO/EFOMP European guideline curriculum is a first step to harmonise specialist training of medical physicists in radiotherapy within Europe. It provides a common framework for national medical physics societies to develop or benchmark their own curricula, but is also flexible enough to suit different situations of initial physics qualifications, medical physics training programmes, accreditation structures, etc. The responsibility for the implementation of these standards and guidelines will lie with the national training bodies and authorities.
提供一份涵盖欧洲放射治疗医学物理师教育与培训理论及实践方面的指导性课程。
已针对放射治疗医学物理师执业所需的专业理论知识和实践经验制定了指南。假定典型的培训学员在物理科学方面有良好的初始学位，因此这些指南也是在此基础上的补充要求。由欧洲放射治疗与肿瘤学会（ESTRO）和欧洲医学物理组织联合会（EFOMP）设立的一个专家小组对来自一系列欧洲国家及北美的医学物理、放射物理和放射治疗物理的国家培训计划进行了审查。该小组编写的一份文件草案通过EFOMP的基础设施在欧洲各国专业医学物理学会中传阅以供审查和评论，并且在2003年5月于埃因霍温举行的EFOMP科学会议的一次教育会议上进行了讨论。
由此产生的欧洲放射治疗医学物理师教育与培训指导性课程讨论了EFOMP术语“合格医学物理师（QMP）”和“专科医学物理师（SMP）”，以及该小组对与欧盟（指令97/43）术语“医学物理专家（MPE）”之间联系的看法。理论知识和实践经验部分各主题所期望的最低水平旨在使学员达到QMP的要求。文件分发给各国学会后的反馈以及讨论结果要么是同意其内容，无需修改，要么是提出修改建议，专家组在审议后已将这些建议考虑在内。在此之后，这些指南已得到上级组织的认可。
这份新的ESTRO/EFOMP联合欧洲指导性课程是使欧洲放射治疗医学物理师专业培训实现协调统一的第一步。它为各国医学物理学会制定或衡量其自身课程提供了一个共同框架，但也足够灵活以适应初始物理学历、医学物理培训计划、认证结构等的不同情况。这些标准和指南的实施责任将由国家培训机构和当局承担。
