EFOMP e-learning platform (e_LEMENT)
Dear colleagues,
In the dynamic field of medical physics, continuous education and training are essential for professionals to stay current with advancements, enhance their skills, and deliver optimal patient care. Recognizing this imperative, the European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP) has developed e-LEMENT (e-Learning for Education in MEdical physics and New Technologies). A new e-learning platform with the ambitious aim that it will become a key reference point for medical physics education, training and retraining on an international level.
As EFOMP firmly believes in a versatile e-learning platform with an attractive and modern interface, it entrusted Cevents, as the e-learning service provider. Cevents were selected after a European tender. They were given the task of creating an attractive and user-friendly interface that could be used by anyone and at the same time provide a service to its National Member Organisations (NMOs).
EFOMP's Education and Training Committee is working in synergy with the European School of Medical Physics Experts (ESMPE) and the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to draw up a common strategy to cover all types of training, with synchronous, asynchronous, hybrid courses covering cutting-edge topics, webinars focusing on specific topics and more basic courses providing Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
e-LEMENT is divided into several sections, each with a specific content, some accessible to everyone, others only to those who have signed up for Individual Associate Membership (IAM). Becoming an IAM on the platform will be super easy: all it takes is a couple of clicks and € 15 and the membership will last for a whole year.
The first e-LEMENT section is accessible to everyone, it will host the fee-based courses, with low-cost registration fees, and will contain Synchronous and Asynchronous courses, Hybrid Courses or Blended courses.
All these courses are to be organized in the coming years, and most of them will provide Continuing Professional Develpment (CPDs) points.
The second section will be accessible to IAMs and hosts the repository of all courses and educational material that have been and will be delivered by the ESMPE and EFOMP SIGs as it was on previous EFOMP e-Learning platform. The course database is clearly structured and easy to use.
Since EFOMP is an organisation with many National Member Organisations (NMOs) from different economic regions, the third e-LEMENT section is dedicated to NMOs. In this section there are information about each national (or international in some cases) organisation, in which the NMO's Logo appears as well as some specific data both in English and the language of the NMO. In this section, interested NMOs can use their dedicated space to promote and/or add their own courses. Publishing these courses is free of charge, however adding them to their dedicated section involves a payment under the same type of contract that EFOMP has signed with Cevents. The language used for the courses can be chosen by the NMOs, with the ambition to reach much easier people from their own country or countries/regions who speak the same language.
A fourth section is a link to the most complete e-Encyclopaedia and multilingual dictionary of medical physics actually on the web, created by EMITEL.
The last small section is dedicated to fun in medical physics.
The e-LEMENT platform aims to provide high-quality education to professionals and students, meeting the highest standards and serving the European medical physics community and beyond. The e-LEMENT aims to fulfil the goal of inclusive, equitable education and lifelong learning opportunities for all.
February 2025
Veronica Rossetti, EFOMP Education & Training Committee Chair
Efi Koutsouveli, EFOMP President
Inquiries on the EFOMP e-LEMENT should be adressed to e-learning@efomp.org / element.efomp@cevents.es
Inquiries on how to be used by the NMOs should be addressed to secretary@efomp.org