title: Medical physics personnel for medical imaging: requirements, conditions of involvement and staffing levels-French recommendations.
abstract: The French regulations concerning the involvement of medical physicists in medical imaging procedures are relatively vague. In May 2013, the ASN and the SFPM issued recommendations regarding Medical Physics Personnel for Medical Imaging: Requirements, Conditions of Involvement and Staffing Levels. In these recommendations, the various areas of activity of medical physicists in radiology and nuclear medicine have been identified and described, and the time required to perform each task has been evaluated. Criteria for defining medical physics staffing levels are thus proposed. These criteria are defined according to the technical platform, the procedures and techniques practised on it, the number of patients treated and the number of persons in the medical and paramedical teams requiring periodic training. The result of this work is an aid available to each medical establishment to determine their own needs in terms of medical physics.
authors.affiliation: ASN-French Nuclear Safety Authority, 15 rue Louis Lejeune, Montrouge 92541, France aurelie.isambert@asn.fr.
authors.forename: Aurélie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Isambert
authors.affiliation: SFPM-French Society for Medical Physics, Centre Antoine Béclère, 45, rue des Saints Pères, Paris Cedex 06 75270, France.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Le Du
authors.affiliation: ASN-French Nuclear Safety Authority, 15 rue Louis Lejeune, Montrouge 92541, France.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valéro
authors.affiliation: SFPM-French Society for Medical Physics, Centre Antoine Béclère, 45, rue des Saints Pères, Paris Cedex 06 75270, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Thérèse
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Guilhem
authors.affiliation: ASN-French Nuclear Safety Authority, 15 rue Louis Lejeune, Montrouge 92541, France.
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rousse
authors.affiliation: SFPM-French Society for Medical Physics, Centre Antoine Béclère, 45, rue des Saints Pères, Paris Cedex 06 75270, France.
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dieudonné
authors.affiliation: ASN-French Nuclear Safety Authority, 15 rue Louis Lejeune, Montrouge 92541, France.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Blanchard
authors.affiliation: SFPM-French Society for Medical Physics, Centre Antoine Béclère, 45, rue des Saints Pères, Paris Cedex 06 75270, France.
authors.forename: Noëlle
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pierrat
authors.affiliation: SFPM-French Society for Medical Physics, Centre Antoine Béclère, 45, rue des Saints Pères, Paris Cedex 06 75270, France.
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Salvat
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification / Q000592:standards*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000592:standards*; D005602:France; D006283:Health Physics / Q000592:standards*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011871:Radiology / Q000592:standards*; D000078329:Workforce