ESTRO meets Asia 2024 - Abstract Book

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ESTRO meets Asia 2024

documents (PDFs), presentations, websites, videos, podcasts, and web pages. Contributions from medical physics educators are welcomed, as they can license their work through the Creative Commons and have content hosted on local MPWB servers, fostering a sense of global collaboration and shared knowledge. Results: The TC-37 report has approximately 780 unique training topics. Approximately 492 links to open-access external resources (hosted on the World Wide Web) and 104 links to internal resources (accessible via a local server) were meticulously matched. This ensures that all aspects of medical physics practice are covered. All training topics, links to the resources, and associated meta-data are managed through a single, editable, living spreadsheet, providing a reassuringly comprehensive and up-to-date resource. Since its release in May 2023, the website has had over 5000 views, steadily increasing as more residents became aware of this resource. A small survey of residency programs (N=6) reported the resource as very useful(86%). Conclusions: The Website of Open Resources for Learning and Development of Medical Physics (WORLD of MP) platform holds immense promise, though it is still in its early stages. It can potentially democratize trainees' access to critical educational content, particularly given its organizational simplicity and reference to the IAEA TC-37 training document.

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The ESTRO-EFOMP core curriculum: a joint effort from European medical physics experts in Radiation oncology

Núria Jornet

Servei de Radiofísica i Radioprotecció, Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

In 2004 the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP) and the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) issued jointly guidelines for the education and training of medical physicists within radiation oncology. These guidelines were first updated in 2011 jointly by the two organisations to accommodate the advances in radiotherapy techniques and technology. That revision was drawn up using the terminology in accordance with the EU recommendations on the European Qualifications framework for lifelong learning, in with learning outcomes were defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competences. In 2022, a new version of the CC for Medical Physics Experts in RT was issued by ESTRO and EFOMP after a survey to all European Medical Physics Society to assess the current MPE education in each country. This new version aimed to address not only the new demands on knowledge, skills and competences due to the increasing technological complexity of radiation equipment and treatments but also on the increasing demands on quality and risk management. This updated CC is based on the CanMEDS, the latest EU guidelines (RP-174) and EFOMP policy statement 12.1.

The 3rd CC for MPE in RT clearly recommends:

- The minimum education level to enter a MPE training program should be a BSc degree, predominantly in physics, followed by an MSc degree in Physics or Medical Physics (BSc+MSc including in total at least 180 ECTS focused on fundamental physics and mathematics).

-The MPE training should have a duration of at least 4 years and the trainee must be appointed as a paid resident. MPE training can be in one or more sub-specialities of Medical Physics. This period is required to obtain the