European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics Adopted policy statements

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This page contains the adopted policy statements of EFOMP. Links are supplied if available. Every effort will be made to ensure that the information contained in the pages is accurate and up to date, but the provider cannot assume any garantuee for completeness and accuracy.

EFOMP policy statements are being published in Physica Medica.

• No. 1: Medical Physics Education and Training: The Present European Level and Recommendations for its Future Development, 1984. (suspended)
• No. 2: The Roles, Responsibilities and Status of the Clinical Medical Physicist, 1984.
• No. 3: Radiation Protection of the Patient in Europe<: The Training of the Medical Physicist as a Qualified Expert in Radiophysics, 1988. (obsolete, available on request)
• No. 4: Criteria for the Number of Physicists in a Medical Physics Department, 1991. (obsolete, available on request)
• No. 5: Departments of Medical Physics - Advantages, Organisation and Management, Sept. 1993 [Physica Medica XI, 3(1995)126-128]
• No. 6: Recommended guidelines of National Registration Schemes for Medical Physicists, Sept. 1994 [Physica Medica XI, 4(1995)157-159]
• No. 7: Criteria for the Staffing Levels in a Medical Physics Department (pdf file-40 kB), Sept. 1997 [Physica Medica XIII (1997) 187-194]
• No. 8: Continuing Professional Development for the Medical Physicist, (also available as Acrobat pdf-file: policy8.pdf), March 1998 [Physica Medica XIV (1998) 81-83]
• No. 9: Radiation Protection of the Patient in Europe: The Training of the Medical Physics Expert in Radiation Physics or Radiation Technology (also available as Acrobat pdf-file: policy9.pdf) [Physica Medica XV (1999) 149-153]
• No. 10: Recommended Guidelines on National Schemes for Continuing Professional Development of Medical Physicists. [Physica Medica XVII (2001) 97-101]
• No. 11: Guidelines on Professional Conduct and Procedures to Be Implemented in the Event of Alleged Misconduct. [Physica Medica XIX (2003) 227-229]

See also:

• Quality assurance in radiotherapy: the importance of medical physics staffing levels. Recommendations from an ESTRO/EFOMP joint task group. S. Beletti et al.; Radiother. Oncol. 41 (1996) 89-94.
• Guidelines for education and training of medical physicists in radiotherapy, Teresa Eudaldo et al., Radiother. Oncol. 70 (2004) 125-135 (PDF)
• Report by the EFOMP ETP Committee: The Present Status of Medical Physics Education and Training in Europe. New perspectives and EFOMP Recommendations.(PDF)