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Medical Physics Career Information

• From www.careers.govt.nz - includes pay, job outlook, working conditions, how to become a Medical Physicist, and profiles of Medical Physicists
• From IAEA - radiation protection of patients
• From the IPENZ Futureintech website, a profile of University of Canterbury Medical Physics graduate Ekta Jhala

Professional Societies/Associations/Colleges

• Australasian College of Physical Sciences and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM)
• New Zealand branch of the ACPSEM
• TEAP
• Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Medizinische Physik (DGMP)
• Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
• European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO)

Medical Physics Job Postings

• ACPSEM - Australasia
• AAPM – USA
• COMP - Canada
• ESTRO – Europe
• IPEM – UK
• DGMP – Germany
• NACP – Scandinavia
• OEGMP - Austria
• SGSMP – Switzerland

Local collaborators

• Bioengineering
• HIT Lab NZ
• Christchurch Hospital and the Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering
• Van der Veer Institute
• National Radiation Laboratory
• Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences of Otago University
• MARS Bioimaging
• Prof. Phil Bones, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Main NZ Hospitals & District Health Boards

• Auckland City Hospital, Auckland DHB
• Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, Waikato DHB
• Palmerston North Hospital, MidCentral DHB
• Wellington Hospital, Capital&Coast DHB
• Christchurch Hospital, Canterbury DHB
• Dunedin Hospital, Otago DHB

Medical Physics databases & journals

• PubMed (search engine)
• Medical Physics page UC library
• Medical Physics
• Physics in Medicine and Biology
• Radiotherapy and Oncology
• International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics
• British Journal of Radiology
• Radiation Oncology
• Acta Oncologica
• Medizinische Physik
• Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine
• Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
• Computational & Mathematical Methods in Medicine
• Medical Dosimetry

*NOTE - for some journals UC users can access full text articles by inserting '.ezproxy.canterbury.ac.nz' after the '.com', e.g. 'www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.canterbury.ac.nz'. Off-campus you will probably have to enter your UC username and password.*

Medical Physics conferences

• International Organisation for Medical Physics (IOMP) calendar
• Medical Physics calendar
• 4^th Summer School on Solid State Dosimetry, Sydney, Australia, 15^th - 18^th September 2010
• 16^th International Conference on Solid State Dosimetry, Sydney, Australia, 19^th - 24^th September 2010
• 41. Jahrestagung der DGMP (41^st Annual Meeting of the German Medical Physics Society), Freiburg, Germany, 29^th September - 2^nd October 2010
• 2010 Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference & 17^th Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop, Knoxville, TN, USA, 30^th October - 6^th November 2010
• EPSM-ABEC 2010, Melbourne, Australia, 5^th - 9^th December 2010

Miscellaneous

• Learn (intranet)
• Medical Physics Wiki
• Online Treatment planning tutorial with Prism
• Prism Treatment planning, University of Washington, Seattle
• University of Wuerzburg, Department of Radiation Oncology
• Hochschule Ulm, Faculty of Mechatronics and Medical Engineering
• EMITEL - Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics
• Medical Physics Glossary
• MedPhys Files