Abstract ID: 367 The AIFM paediatric commission: Rationale, purposes and first results

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Purpose The purpose of the AIFM Pediatric Commission is to contribute to a better knowledge of the medical physics aspects of paediatric applications. The Commission will focus mostly on the study of quality and safety aspects, supporting the contacts between scientific associations, institutions and stakeholders, and promoting communication and shared projects. Methods The Commission will address three entities: 1) Scientific societies and institutions, to help coordinate initiatives and create synergies in medical physics applications in paediatrics; 2) the AIFM members, for whom the Commission should be a “reference point” for issues that are specific of paediatric applications; 3) The stakeholders and the population. We are planning the initial following actions: – A public event on dosimetric data in paediatrics, to be organized in 2018 together with the paediatric groups of other professional and scientific societies; – A national survey to collect numbers and procedures for paediatric patients across Italy; – For the AIFM members: a. a dedicated page on the web site, to openly expose goals and results of the Commission. The page will also be a virtual conference room to discuss paediatric topics, and a repository of guidelines and literature in the field; b. a dedicated e-mail address has been defined: commissionepediatrica@fisicamedica.it ; c. the Commission being the AIFM reference for all paediatric topics in medical physics, will propose Working Groups (WGs) on this subject. Our WGs will follow the standard procedure of any AIFM WGs. It is desirable that any other new paediatric group is initially submitted to the Commission, which will express its opinion to the AIFM Management Commitee. – In order to understand what AIFM can offer to the stakeholders and to the “outside world”, questions related to paediatrics and already submitted to the existing AIFM forum will be analysed. Results the results of the national survey will be presented (data collection is still ongoing); the architecture of the AIFM web page will be shown. Conclusions the congress will be an important moment to understand the members’ needs and interest on this topic.