title: The European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics Policy Statement No. 10.1: Recommended Guidelines on National Schemes for Continuing Professional Development of Medical Physicists.
abstract: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is vital to the medical physics profession if it is to embrace the pace of change occurring in medical practice. As CPD is the planned acquisition of knowledge, experience and skills required for professional practice throughout one's working life it promotes excellence and protects the profession and public against incompetence. Furthermore, CPD is a recommended prerequisite of registration schemes (Caruana et al. 2014) and is implied in the Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM (EU BSS) and the International Basic Safety Standards (BSS). It is to be noted that currently not all national registration schemes require CPD to maintain the registration status necessary to practise medical physics. Such schemes should consider adopting CPD as a prerequisite for renewing registration after a set period of time. This EFOMP Policy Statement, which is an amalgamation and an update of the EFOMP Policy Statements No. 8 and No. 10, presents guidelines for the establishment of national schemes for CPD and activities that should be considered for CPD.
authors: Biomedical Research Foundation, P.O. Box 24039, 1700 Nicosia, Cyprus. Electronic address: c4stelios@gmail.com.
authors: Stelios
authors: S
authors: Christofides
authors: Coimbra Hospital and Universitary Centre, 3000-075 Coimbra, Portugal.
authors: Jorge
authors: J
authors: Isidoro
authors: Department of Technology and Economics, Budapest University, Muegyetem rkp. 3, 1111 Budapest, Hungary.
authors: Csilla
authors: C
authors: Pesznyak
authors: UKSH Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany.
authors: Florian
authors: F
authors: Cremers
authors: Centro Hospitalar de São João, Alameda Prof. Hernani Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.
authors: Rita
authors: R
authors: Figueira
authors: St. Antonius Hospital, PO Box 2500, NL-3430 EM Nieuwegein, Netherlands.
authors: Christiaan
authors: C
authors: van Swol
authors: EFOMP, Fairmount House, 230 Tadcaster Road, York YO24 1ES, UK.
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Evans
authors: Medical Physics Dep., Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milano, Italy.
authors: Alberto
authors: A
authors: Torresin
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005062:European Union; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006283:Health Physics / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D011640:Public Policy; D012449:Safety