Category: News & Events
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First OMPAC meeting of the year 2024
The Fist OMPAC Meeting for 2024 was held online on Teems on Fri, 1/19/2024 1:00 – 2:00 The main focus was how everyone is doing and what is new and exiting in our everyday job. We had some grate discussions regarding a couple of QA technology and methods we use in our clinic or we…
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COMP Scientific meeting 2023
COMP’s Annual Scientific Meeting for this year will be a joint meeting with CARO in Montreal, Quebec September 20-23 The theme for the 2023 CARO-COMP JSM is Interprofessional Collaboration: Better Together. On behalf of OMPAC we would like to invite you to the Physics Associates Luncheon Date: Friday, Sept. 22, 2023 Time: 1 – 2 pm Eastern In…
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COMP’s Annual Scientific Meeting
On behalf of OMPAC we would like to invite you to the Physics Associates Luncheon during COMP’s Annual Scientific Meeting. Time: June 24, 2022, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Link to the zoom meeting will be provided via email at a later time. Looking forward to seeing you there either in person or…
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OMPAC 13th Annual Meeting
Date, time and the link to the meeting will be posted later OMPAC Annual Meeting Agenda 2021 Please use the Comment section bellow to recommend a subject to be added to our 2021 meeting’s agenda
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ON THE ROLE OF MEDICAL PHYSICS ASSOCIATES
Jerry Battista, Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario Coordinator, Medical Physics Education Program, Cancer Care Ontario An article published in Medical Physics (Fontenla, Doracy P., Gary A. Ezzell, and Colin G. Orton (moderator). Medical Physics 43 (1), 1-3 (2016)) presented a debate on the proposition “Medical physicist assistants are a bad idea.” Both sides presented…
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Are Physics Assistants a Bad Idea? A response to the Med. Phys. 43 (1) Point/Counterpoint, “Medical physicist assistants are a bad idea”
Silvia Neuteboom The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center In the January 2016 edition of Medical Physics, Dr. Doracy P. Fontenla of Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center, and Dr. Gary A. Ezzell of the Mayo Clinic Arizona argue the Point/Counterpoint proposition, “Medical physicist assistants are a bad idea.” Although the authors are discussing the American medical physics…
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Are medical physicist assistants a bad idea?
Medical Physics journal in its recent issue (Med. Phys. 43(1) January 2016) has published a Point/Counterpoint article called “Medical physicist assistants are a bad idea” Read the article. Please read it, pass it on and send me your and others in your center’s opinion. I would post here.
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Physics Associates – Not Just the Hired Help
Results of the 2010 COMP Survey of Physics Associates in Canada Silvia Neuteboom, B. Sc, Physics Technologist, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center Originally published in the October 2011 volume of COMP’s magazine, InterActions. In June 2010, for the first time, COMP conducted a survey of physics associates (aka physics technologists, assistants, and/or technicians) across Canada. The purpose was to…