All conference submissions

Ultrasound-guided high-dose-rate (HDR) interstitial prostate brachytherapy is a technically demanding procedure requiring proficiency in imaging, catheter reconstruction, contouring, treatment planning, and quality assurance unde...

A multi-institutional journal club (MIJC) was introduced by the AAPM’s Working Group on Multi-Institutional Journal Clubs for Residency Programs (WGJCRP) in 2021. As of 2022, 40% of therapy programs were participating. The MIJC p...

Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) plays an important role in the management of oncology patients, particularly those with thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, and neuroendocrine tumor. The use of radionuclide therapy has expanded rap...

Shortages of trained medical physicists persist across Africa. Needs-assessment surveys were utilized to determine trainee interest and medical physics curricular gaps to aid in design of hands-on outreach workshops for the Afric...

As treatment planning evolves toward patient-specific optimization, traditional static dose constraints are insufficient for distinguishing high-quality versus acceptable plans. Current planning directives rely on generic dose co...

To develop cross-attention-based multi-modal deep learning models and to preliminarily validate their performance for predicting local recurrence (LR) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

An educational endeavor has been initiated to provide the diagnostic radiology (DR) community with an up-to-date resource describing the physics and clinical implementation of DR imaging physics. The resource will be widely, and...

To reflect on a meaningful early experience of research, learning, and professional growth within a radiation oncology department under the mentorship of a medical physicist

Championing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are strategic goals of the AAPM and COMP, however, actions to advance EDI in education are limited. The current work describes the development of innovative resources to support...

Patient-facing AI systems are increasingly used for education, yet their performance can vary widely depending on how users communicate. This study presents the development and evaluation of an AI-based chatbot designed to delive...

To evaluate national structure, capacity, and geographic distribution of Medical Physics education and training in Zimbabwe, and assess alignment between academic output and clinical workforce absorption.

Our university’s Medical Physics M.Sc. prepares students for Canadian board certification through written and oral assessments. Despite the additional time and effort involved, oral exams remain part of the curriculum due to thei...

Open-ended survey responses are extremely valuable since participants voluntarily share insights that they feel are necessary to express. The purpose of this study is to accurately reflect members’ perception of the AAPM climate,...

To identify factors contributing to an increased trend in near miss gantry collisions and develop an effective mitigation program.

Fluoroscopy education and clinical literature dealing with videofluoroscopic swallowing studies commonly emphasize frame rate as the primary determinant of temporal resolution and diagnostic accuracy. However, frame integration o...

To report on the success of an innovative academic program which provides an educational opportunity for ABR-certified medical physicists interested in obtaining a Ph.D. degree while remaining employed, allowing them to engage mo...

Accurate delineation of the esophageal clinical target volume (CTV) is challenging due to extended longitudinal coverage and substantial slice-wise shape variation. Existing deep learning methods typically require extensive manua...

To develop a global database of medical physics initiatives in support of a sustainable and equitable collaborative ecosystem that minimizes resource duplication and inefficiencies across stakeholders.

Education

Understanding of medical physics is essential for safe and effective radiation oncology practice. This study evaluates current instructional practices for physics education in radiation oncology physician residency programs follo...

Education is a core professional responsibility for medical physicists, yet most receive limited formal training in pedagogy or instructional design. Recognizing this gap, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)...

Although radiographic exposures are individually low dose, in 2016 there were 275 million in the U.S.; the broad population makes consistent dose and image quality important. A large institution faces significant challenges to ac...

A cost- and revenue-shared model is an implementable solution to establish a sustainable, financially-sound medical physics graduate program allowing for proper long-term planning and consistent growth while assuring high quality...

Hands-on training in absolute dosimetry and beam data acquisition is an important requirement in medical physics education, yet access to linear accelerators and water phantoms is often limited by clinical workload, and resource...