Abstract
Implementation of quality medical physics training in a low-middle income country - sharing experience from a tertiary care JCIA-accredited university hospital.
Highlights
In the specialty of radiation oncology, medical physicists play an imperative role
Our purpose of sharing this experience is to encourage medical physics colleagues to come up with innovative ideas and to take up this challenge of improving the quality of medical physics training in order to improve the overall health-care quality of professionals involved in the radiation oncology services of cancer patients in countries like Pakistan
Each trainee must maintain a full record of activities performed during the certificate program in terms of a portfolio, to be checked periodically by the mentor
Summary
To the Editor: Our team wishes to share with the readers of a medical physics journal our experience of establishment of a two-year radiation oncology physics postgraduate training program. The Aga Khan University (AKUH), Pakistan’s first private international university, is committed to the provision of education, research, and health care of international standard relevant to Pakistan and the region. In line with this vision, the University Hospital has established a state-of-the-art Radiation Oncology facility. A number of new modern radiotherapy units, such as Gamma Knife, Cyber Knife, Varian Trilogy, Elekta Synergy, have recently been installed in Pakistan and especially in Karachi. This makes the deficiency of skilled medical physicists even more critical in private sector. The AKUH has taken the initiative of ‘capacity building’ locally, with the help of international expertise, by establishing a two-year Certificate Program in Medical Physics specializing in radiation therapy to meet the emerging needs of quality radiation therapy
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