The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is organizing the third International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology (ICARO-3), following the successes of the first and second conferences (ICARO-1 and ICARO-2), which were held in 2009 and...

“Today, more than ever, medical devices are indispensable to save lives” Once confirming good quality, we should make every effort to ensure medical devices for COVID are: available, accessible, appropriate and affordable to those that need them the most,...

EDITORIAL Slavik Tabakov, Perry Sprawls and Geoffrey Ibbott HISTORY OF DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY: EVOLUTION OF 2D AND 3D IMAGING MODALITIES R. Pauwels THE HISTORY OF CONTRAST MEDIA DEVELOPMENT IN X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY Adrian M K Thomas MEDICAL PHYSICS DEVELOPMENT...

WHO Medical Devices Newsletter Dear colleagues, we are all facing very difficult times in the world with the COVID pandemic. Some extracts from WHO media briefing:  Today’s  Friday 13, WHO news: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/13-03-2020-who-un-foundation-and-partners-launch-first-of-its-kind-covid-19-solidarity-response-fund  “Funds...

Dear colleagues, We all have been affected by the novel COVID-19 in professional and personal life. There are more things unknown than known about this virus. As a result, all sorts of news is circulating around. Our job, as responsible scientifically...

Patients in Focus: The IAEA’s First Training in Safety Culture in Medicine 25 participants discussed the future training material to be launched in May 2020 CT Protocols and Radiation Doses for Hematuria and Urinary Stones: Comparing Practices in 20 Countries A...

Registration and Abstract Submission for the 1st Regional Conference of the Federation of African Medical Physics Organizations (FAMPO-2020 Conference) is now OPEN. Kindly visit the conference website to submit your applications. https://conference.fampo-africa.org/...

Dear Friends and Colleagues,  We would like to invite you to participate in this questionnaire survey.  Objectives: 1. To determine the awareness of medical physicists regarding AI. 2. To determine the perceptions of medical physicists on the relevance...

The Federation of African Medical Physics Organizations (FAMPO) will host its 1st Regional Conference on Medical Physics from 27 – 29 November 2020 in Marrakech, Morocco. Please click here to access the conference website. https://conference.fampo-africa.org/?

The March 2020 issue of the IUPAP newsletter is now online for your browsing.  You can view it via the link http://iupap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IUPAP_march2020_e.pdf or directly from the IUPAP website http://iupap.org/newsletter/

IOMP Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2020

Accreditation

Warm greetings on behalf of Professor Dr Norlisah Mohd Ramli, Organising Chairman of the 18th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology (AOCR) 2020 and Dr Amir Fuad Hussain, President of College of Radiology (CoR) Academy of Medicine of Malaysia. We are excited...

International Medical Physics Week (IMPW) 2020

WHO Medical Devices Newsletter January 2020 Dear colleagues As the new year begins, first we want to thank all your collaboration to the medical devices and related areas and we look forward to continue working with you with the goal of increasing access...

International Conference on Clinical PET–CT and Molecular Imaging in the Era of Theranostics (IPET-2020) IAEA Headquarters Vienna, Austria 23-27 November 2020 Organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) For information on the conference,...

The SCMPCR Newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 1 January 2020) is available at www.scmpcr.org/scmpcr-newsletter/  

Med Phys Int (MPI), 2019 Vol.7 No.3 General Content of MPI • EDITORIALS • 35 YEARS IOMP MEDICAL PHYSICS WORLD: PROUDLY SERVING OUR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY • IFMBE CELEBRATES ITS 60TH ANNIVERSARY • AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF RADIOLOGY...

Yesterday evening, Dr. J.R. Cunningham passed away peacefully surrounded by family near Calgary, Alberta, Canada. “Jack” was an exceptional person, orator, and pioneer of medical physics – recognized internationally, with awards received...

Download January 2020 AFOMP newsletter HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS ISSUE Internaonal Medical Physics Week 2020 As we ushers in 2020: are we sll relevnt Kwan Hoong Ng AOCMP 2019 Congress Report 7th IDMP Celebraon in Bangladesh Zinat Rehana AAPM-ISEP-AMPI- workshop...

EFOMP Efi Koutsouveli AFOMP Eva Bezak AAPM Jacob van Dyk MEFOMP Hanan Aldousari ALFIM Not Awarded FAMPO Moses Adebayo Aweda

December 2019, Vol. 35(10),No.3 – 10 MB

Presenter: Eliseo Vano, Gabriel Bartal Date of broadcast: 16 January 2020, 3 pm CET (check your corresponding time) Organized jointly with the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) and the International Organization...

The University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio campus) offers a multidisciplinary two-year master’s programme in medical physics that combines high-quality teaching and a top-notch research environment. This postgraduate programme is designed for students...

May 25 –27, 2020 Venue: Halle02, Heidelberg, Germany Hosts: Prof. Oliver Jäkel, PhD, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ Prof. Jürgen Debus, MD, PhD, University Hospital Heidelberg Further Information: www.dkfz.de/mrinrthd2020 Contact: mrinrthd@dkfz.de

Contribution of Medical Physics in healthcare is multi-dimensional & it has improved the healthcare tremendously. The recent advancements in Medical Physics may it be in Radiodiagnosis, Radiotherapy(RT), Nuclear Medicine (NM) and various fields specially...

Download Obituary Prof Barry Allen Nov 2019        

Optimisation in X-ray and Molecular Imaging 2020 Third Announcement Gothenburg, Sweden 20-22 April 2020 Optimisation in X-ray and Molecular Imaging 2020 will cover a wide area of research related to optimisation of medical imaging and is intended for...

IDMP 2019 celebration in King’s College London (MSc programmes in Medical Physics,  Clinical Engineering and Medical Engineering and Physics).

Qatar Medical Physics Society (QaMPS) celebrated the IDMP 2019 on the 7th of November by holding a large sign baring the words “International Medical Physics Day” and the logo of QaMPS and MEFOMP at the entrance of the largest administration building...

New publication: Technical specifications and guidance for oxygen therapy devices Next week,  on the 12 of November, the World Pneumonia Day will take place. Pneumonia accounts for 15% of all deaths of children under 5 years old and much work has to...

NCI physicists celebrating IDMP 2019.

Japan Society of Medical Physics held five IDMP events in Japan on November 7, 2019. The five locations were Chiba, Tokyo, Gunma, Aichi, and Osaka. IDMP 2019 Japan – Aichi Report IDMP 2019 Japan – Chiba Report IDMP 2019 Japan – Gunma...

IDMP was celebrated at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS), Shiraz Iran. Head of Iranian Association of Medical Physics, Dr. Amin Mosleh Shirazi gave a talk on recent progresses in the field of medical physics. There was a Q&A session between...

IDMP Special Edition e-Newsletter BMPA 2019

On Thursday 7 November 2019, the IAEA will join all medical physicists around the world and the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) in the celebration of the 7th International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP). 7 November marks an important...

The Students of the first year of the Master’s of Advanced Studies in Medical Physics, jointly organised by the ICTP and Trieste University, celebrate the 2019 International Day of Medical Physics  attending the exam of Brachytherapy of the courses...

The Lebanese Association of Medical Physics (LAMP) has celebrated the International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP 2019) on November 7, 2019 at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital In Beirut, Lebanon. The event was attended by medical physicists and master...

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, IS THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MEDICAL PHYSICS #IDMP2019 Happy birthday Marie Curie! COMP Contest for Curie Cash This year COMP is celebrating the interconnected international Medical Physics community! Let us get connected! https://www.comp-ocpm.ca/english/news/idmp2019-are-you-ready-to-celebrate.htm

  IDMP Day 2019

IPEM has done a number of activities, events and campaigns over the years. This year a joint letter with RCR and SCoR wil be written to the CEOs of the hospitals with radiology and medical physics departments advising them of this International Day of...

Being aware that medical physics profession is demanding but also that there is a lack of medical physicists around the Globe, Serbian Association of Medical Physicists has dedicated this year celebration to the future medical physicists. On November...

A conference & workshop will be held on the 7-9th of November. The mission of the “Medical Physics in the Baltic States 2019” Conference is to consolidate the efforts of engineers, physicians and scientists working in hospitals, clinics, research...

Since 2013, alongside EFOMP and IOMP, The Romanian College of Medical Physicists (CFMR) together with the Department of Physics from the University of Oradea are celebrating IDMP via a symposium dedicated to the medical physics profession. This year,...

On the occasion of the International Day of  Medical Physics, the Italian Association of Medical Physics (AIFM) will organize a national meeting to be held on November 7th and 8th, 2019. This high-profile, two-day event will take place in the city of...

In Dublin a Medical Physics Table Quiz in Doyle’s Pub Phibsboro starting at 7pm on the 7th of November will be organised to celebrate the International Day of Medical Physics.

The International Day of Medical Physics 2019 will be celebrated this year in Thessaloniki, North Greece and Patras, Peloponnese. The first activity will be a workshop on the use of Lasers in Medicine – Clinical applications and Safe use, organised...

The Croatian Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics Society will traditionally, for the third time, celebrate the International Day of Medical Physics with a symposium. The symposium will be held on Thursday, November 7, 2019 beginning at 4:00 pm...

Check latest IDMP updates from European countries at this dedicated section of the EFOMP website https://www.efomp.org/index.php?r=pages&id=idmp-2019