The academic day is designed for the class to come together as a whole to discuss AAPM reports and other issues with the course coordinator.
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A laboratory manual will be distributed at the beginning of the semester. Written reports or worksheets will be required for each session. Laboratories will be performed during and after clinical hours. Each student will have two laboratory sessions per week. Students will become familiar with the operation of various therapy units and dose measuring devices, with the techniques for measurement of different physical parameters which characterize radiation beams used in radiation therapy, and with the calibration of various types of imaging equipment in diagnostic imaging. The laboratories are designed to provide clinical and practical exposure in radiation therapy, diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine. Students will have evaluation forms to be signed by the supervising physicist for each rotation. The student will rotate through the Emory facilities, which include Emory University Hospital, Atlanta VA Hospital, Crawford Long Hospital and Grady Hospital. During this time, students are expected to participate in 50% of the tasks on the task list.
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Each student will spend two full days per week on rotation with an assigned clinical physicist or dosimetrist.
The clinical rotation is designed to expose students to the daily activities of the clinical physicist as well as possible special procedures involving patients. The course is divided into three parts: clinical rotation (two days/week), laboratory (two days/week), and academic day (one day/week). The clinical rotation and laboratory course will be offered during the summer semester.
The rotation is not meant to replace the more rigorous "residency training" which is recommended by the AAPM for all new graduates of MSMP. The clinical rotation and laboratory course of the MSMP Program is designed to familiarize students with the relevant hospital/clinical environment. This award is given for continued contributions for the basic or clinical science of pain medicine or for demonstration of clinical excellence or innovation in the practice of pain medicine.Medical physics is a profession where practical experience must supplement theory and where textbook knowledge alone is not sufficient. Dworkin, PhD, ACTTION Director, received the AAPM Founders Award, which is given "for outstanding contributions to the science or practice of pain medicine. Patrick Tighe, MD, received an AAPM Presidential Commendation in recognition of his contributions to the development of the AAAPT acute pain taxonomy and multidimensional framework and to the AAPM acute pain special interest group and journal, Pain Medicine. A symposium focusing on the ACTTION-American Pain Society-AAPM Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) for acute pain was chaired by Patrick Tighe, MD, and included presentations by him, Stephen Bruehl, PhD, and Carleton Dampier, MD, who discussed progress in the development of new taxonomies of pain, research methods for validating novel diagnostic criteria, and recent diagnostic criteria for acute and chronic pain associated with sickle cell disease.