Primary Specialized Accreditation Medical Physicists

Abstract

Currently, persons with higher professional (non-medical) education and no work experience as medical workers or who have less than five years of work experience as medical workers must undergo primary specialized accreditation. In order to accredit medical physicists to work in radiation therapy departments on the basis of the Department of Accelerator Physics and Radiation Medicine, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov developed a bank of 2000 questions. In 2023, the tasks of the simulation stage were updated and approved. To test the practical skills of medical physicists as part of accreditation, domestic developers from the companies RT 7 LLC and Gradation LLC provided specially designed training modules based on their software, which is currently used, including in radiation therapy departments. Despite the fact that a lot of work has been done, at present only the starting point has been formed for the launch of primary specialized accreditation in Russia. In the future, constant cooperation between higher educational institutions, accreditation centers and leading cancer centers in our country is necessary to regularly update and improve assessment tools for the accreditation of specialists in the field of medical physics.