Medical physics practice and training in Ghana

被引：6

作者：

Amuasi, John H. ^{[1
]}

Kyere, Augustine K. ^{[1
]}

Schandorf, Cyril ^{[1
]}

Fletcher, John J. ^{[1
]}

Boadu, Mary ^{[1
,2
]}

Addison, Eric K. ^{[1
,3
]}

Hasford, Francis ^{[1
,2
]}

Sosu, Edem K. ^{[1
,2
]}

Sackey, Theophilus A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Tagoe, Samuel N. A. ^{[4
]}

Inkoom, Stephen ^{[5
]}

Serfor-Armah, Yaw ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Ghana, Sch Nucl & Allied Sci, Atom Campus,POB AE 1, Kwabenya, Accra, Ghana

[2] Ghana Atom Energy Commiss, Radiol & Med Sci Res Inst, POB LG 80, Accra, Ghana

[3] PMB, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hosp, Oncol Directorate, Kumasi, Ghana

[4] Korle Bu Teaching Hosp, Natl Ctr Radiotherapy & Nucl Med, POB KB 369, Accra, Ghana

[5] Ghana Atom Energy Commiss, Radiat Protect Inst, POB LG 80, Accra, Ghana

来源：

PHYSICA MEDICA-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS | 2016年 / 32卷 / 06期

关键词：

Medical physicist; Radiotherapy; Diagnostic radiology; Nuclear medicine;

D O I：

10.1016/j.ejmp.2016.05.057

中图分类号：

R8 [特种医学]; R445 [影像诊断学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100207 ; 1009 ;

摘要：

Medical physics has been an indispensable and strategic stakeholder in the delivery of radiological services to the healthcare system of Ghana. The practice has immensely supported radiation oncology and medical imaging facilities over the years, while the locally established training programme continues to produce human resource to feed these facilities. The training programme has grown to receive students from other African countries in addition to local students. Ghana has been recognised by the International Atomic Energy Agency as Regional Designated Centre for Academic Training of Medical Physicists in Africa. The Ghana Society for Medical Physics collaborates with the School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences of the University of Ghana to ensure that training offered to medical physicists meet international standards, making them clinically qualified. The Society has also worked together with other bodies for the passage of the Health Profession's Regulatory Bodies Act, giving legal backing to the practice of medical physics and other allied health professions in Ghana. The country has participated in a number of International Atomic Energy Agency's projects on medical physics and has benefited from its training courses, fellowships and workshops, as well as those of other agencies such as International Organization for Medical Physics. This has placed Ghana's medical physicists in good position to practice competently and improve healthcare. (C) 2016 Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：826 / 830

页数：5

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