Course Details

The purpose of the course is to introduce medical physicists to new tools and methods that can be applied in QA routines to improve efficiency and quality of work. These methods include automation of image-based QA, application of model observers and AI-based image quality analysis. The course also includes topics related to patient specific dosimetry, dose tracking and protocol management systems; tools that are essential for a medical physicist. The course will also discuss how to adopt these topics in the training of future medical physicists. Every webinar will also include a practical demonstration of a QA- or dosimetry-related topic.

The programme has been accredited by EBAMP as CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 7 and awarded 23 CPD credit points.

 NACP Organisers: Daniel Aadnevik, Ahmed Jibril Abdi, Mika Kortesniemi, Touko Kaasalainen, Angelica Svalkvist, Joanna Sierpowska

The Hellenic Association of Medical Physics (HAMP) and the Medical Physics Unit of the 2nd Dept. of Radiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian, University of Athens would like to invite you to an online workshop in non ionizing and ionizing radiation against COVID-19.  The workshop will be organized as a 3 hours virtual meeting and will be held on 9th July 2021, 16:30-19:50 CEST. It  aims at presenting the main aspects regarding the use of ionising and non ionising radiations against SARS CoV2 and Covid19.  Specifically, the workshop includes an introductory session on SARS cov2, followed by a session on the use of non ionizing radiation for protection purposes against the coronavirus.  The third session focuses on the use of ionizing radiation for diagnostic and treatment purposes in the fight against Covid19. This one-day event is accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 7 and awarded 11 CPD credit points. 

HAMP Organizers: Pola Platoni, Efstathios Efstathopoulos, Ioannis Seimenis, Efi Koutsouveli

This "warm-up webinars series" is a precursor to the 3rd European Congress of Medical Physics (ECMP 2020) which will take place virtually, initially planned to take place in Torino, Italy, in June 2021.

Organisers: Mika Kortesniemi, Efi Koutsouveli, David Lurie, Paddy Gilligan

The aim of the series of talks was to bring Medical Physicists closer together during the Covid19  first and second wave in 2020, discuss new working processes and practices, issues arising in our working environments, share approaches to providing physics services through the pandemic, define novel strategies and prepare ourselves for the challenges to come. 

Following on from EFOMP president's Marco Brambilla’s communication on the corona virus in March 2020, it became clear that many physicists were having similar experiences in adapting their medical physics service in the Covid19 era. It was also evident that sharing of good scientific knowledge and experience would help defeat the virus (or instead perhaps “would help in the fight against the virus”).

The webinars are organised by IAPM (Irish Association of Medical Physicists) and EFOMP with contribution from the Medical Physics societies of Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and UK. Lectures have a duration of 45 minutes and 15 minutes discussion with audience interaction and polls.

EFOMP Organizers: Paddy Gilligan, Efi Koutsouveli, David Lurie.

The EFOMP in collaboration with EURADOS, IRPA, the Kaunas University of Technology and the Lithuanian Association of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering organised ESMPE school in Individual dosimetry in medical applications 2021.

The school is a 1-day satellite Workshop before and in conjunction with the 15th International Conference “Medical Physics in the Baltic States 2021», which will be held on 5-6 November 2021 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks connected with staff dosimetry in medical applications. The school will cover all the aspects related to the establishment of a programme of individual monitoring for workers in medical facilities.

The workshop PET-CT " PET-CT Molecular Imaging: physics, advances & clinical applications" took place virtually on February 6, 2021 in the memory of our colleague and member of the Hellenic Association of Medical Physics (HAMP) board Maria Kotzasarlidou, who lost the fight with COVID-19 in December 2020.

The educational event is jointly organised by the Medical Physics Unit of the University of Athens, the Hellenic Association of Medical Physicists and is supported by the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics

The EFOMP, EANM (The European Association of Nuclear Medicine) and COCIR (The European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry) in collaboration with the Czech Association of Medical Physicists and the Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation of Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague would like to present the  ESMPE e-learning course on Nuclear Medicine 2020. 

During the course advanced tasks connected to molecular imaging related to methods, detector technology and the main physics aspects of multimodal PET and SPECT imaging systems, patient dosimetry and optimization are discussed.

This edition is jointly organized by EFOMP, ESMIT and COCIR. Lecturers identified by COCIR will give insides on the new scientific trends for novel PET and SPECT equipments.

The first day is dedicated to SPECT, the second to PET, the third is both.  New developments of digital PET are presented. In the first two days in the morning scientific lectures from Physics prospective are presented and later scientific lectures by Industry 

This two-and-half day event were accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in the Nuclear Medicine Imaging field. 

Organizers: Adriaan Lammertsma , Stefaan Vandenberghe (Scientific Chairs), Alberto Torresin (Chair of the School) ,Jaroslav Ptácek, Tereza Hanušová (CAMP)

e-learning editing :  AVC-ČVUT, z.s. and Christos Alexakos (EFOMP Web Master)

e-learning supervisor : Alberto Torresin

The Czech Association of Medical Physicists in collaboration with EFOMP and Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation of Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague would would like to present the ESMPE e-learning course on the EFOMP School for Medical Physics Experts - Prague, Summer 2013. 

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks related to PET/CT - from specification of PET/CT system properties to image reconstruction, fusion and evaluation. This two-and-half day event will be an EFOMP accredited one and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who want to become a Medical Physics Expert in Nuclear Medicine.

EFOMP and ESMPE hugely wish to thank all the speakers who  have dedicated and shared some of their  valuable and precious  time to the success of this experience for the  benefit and professional growth of our MPE Community. We look forward to welcoming them again.

Organizers: Jaroslav Ptacek, Martin Steiner (Czech Republic) Carmel Caruana, Marco Brambilla, Alberto Torresin, Peter Sharp, Stelios Christofides (EFOMP)

e-learning editing:  Jaroslav Ptáček, Alberto Torresin

e-learning supervisor: Alberto Torresin

EFOMP, in collaboration with the Czech Association of Medical Physicists (CAMP) and the Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague invite you to the next ESMPE on 13^th-15^th July 2023.

The school will be aimed at different aspects of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT), from basics to treatment imaging and planning to motion management, quality assurance and image guidance. Moreover, it will cover current hot topics, such as Cardiac SBRT (radioablation) and FLASH. And finally, attendees should get to know what the role of medical physicists in clinical SBRT trials is.

This two-and-a-half day event is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in SBRT and is accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8. The event has been judged to have 15 hours of educational experience, which, according to the EBAMP protocol is equivalent to 23 CPD points. As in past school editions, there will be an optional examination at the end for those seeking a higher level of certification beyond attendance. Attendees who also successfully pass the exam obtain an extra 8 CPD points for a total of 31 CPD points.

ESMPE have decided this event will be in a hybrid format. All lecturers will give their talks on-site in Prague but participants can choose if they want to attend the school on-site (limited number of participants) or online, it will be live-streamed.

Please note: All times shown are in CET

Content

Introduction to and Requirements for SBRT

Clinical Trial Involvement and Audits

Patient Preparation and Imaging

Treatment Planning

Quality Assurance

Treatment Delivery

Special Machines and Techniques

Final exam

The final exam is voluntary. Participants can gain additional credits when successfully pass the test.

Organisers

Brendan McClean (Chair of the School), Efi Koutsouveli (EFOMP Vice President)

Oliver Blanck, Serenella Russo (Scientific Chairs)

Jaroslav Ptáček, Tereza Hanušová (CAMP)

EFOMP jointly with COCIR would like to invite you to the next ESMPE in Hybrid Approaches in Radiation Therapy. The school will be organized as a 2-day virtual meeting, which will be held on 12^th–13^th October 2021.

The school will be focused on therapies and devices using hybrid concepts in which the classical radiation therapy is nowadays fused with a second approach to establish the current treatment standard. The aim will be presenting the background, practical methodology, state-of-the-art and future developments. All of the lectures will be delivered live (i.e. not pre-recorded).

This two-day event has been accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and awarded 23 CPD credit points. The school is intended for Medical Physicists Experts who wish to expand their knowledge in hybrid radiation therapy approaches. Certificates of attendance will be issued to those who attend the whole course.

Content

• Radiation therapy concepts
• Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
• Adaptive radiation therapy (ART)
• Surface guided radiation therapy (SGRT)
• Brachytherapy

Organisers

Alberto Torresin (Chair of the School),

Christoph Bert and Jose Perez-Calatayud (Scientific Co-Chairs)

Efi Koutsouveli and Thomas Amorgianiotis (EFOMP online platforms)
 

EFOMP would like to invite you to the next ESMPE in Particle Therapy: State of the art and future developments. The school will be organized as a 2-day virtual meeting, which will be held on 10th-11th December 2020.

The school will be focused on the Medical Physics aspects of Particle Therapy and will be aimed at presenting the state-of-the-art and future developments in Particle Therapy.

This two-day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and is intended for Medical Physicists Experts who wish to expand their knowledge in Particle Therapy. Certificates of attendance will be given to those who attend the whole course.

The school will be aimed at improving the skills in the ­field of the inverse planning for IMRT and VMAT in daily clinical practice.

This one day satellite meeting will be held in conjunction with the 2nd European Congress of Medical Physics and teaching sessions covering the main topics of inverse planning will provide the background for live exercises using clinical cases.

The event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board for Accreditation in Medical Physics) and is intended for practising clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in radiotherapy treatment planning.

Topics:

• Objective functions for IMRT planning: physical and biological optimization
• Practical IMRT/VMAT planning
• Knowledge Based treatment planning
• Managing tradeoffs in radiation therapy: the multicriteria optimization

Organizers: Brendan McClean (Scientific Chair), Gianfranco Loi, Eva Samsøe, Marco Brambilla (Chair of the School)

e-learning editing :  Alberto Torresin and Christos Alexakos (EFOMP Web Master)

The school aims to present the draft EFOMP Digital Breast tomosynthesis Quality Control Protocol with opportunities for discussion and feedback. This feedback will be taken into account in the final version of the protocol.

This one-day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in mammography/digital breast tomosynthesis.

Organisers

Ruben van Engen Dutch expert Center for screening, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Ioannis Sechopoulos Radboud university medical center and Dutch expert Center for screening, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Niall Phelan BreastCheck, Dublin, Ireland

Alistair Mackenzie National Co-ordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography, Guildford, UK

Nick Marshall University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

Valentina Ravaglia Medical Physics Department, AUSL Romagna, Italy

EFOMP, in collaboration with the Czech Association of Medical Physicists and the Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation of Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical  Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague invite you to the next ESMPE on 10^th - 12^th February 2022.

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks connected to site planning and shielding design in medical installation The school will cover the main radioprotection aspects of the shielding  calculations for typical medical installations

This two and a half day event will be accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in the  Radiation protection field as Radiation Protection Experts As in past school editions, there will be an optional examination at the end for those seeking a higher level of certification beyond  attendance ESMPE have decided this event will be in a hybrid format Participants and lecturers will be on site in Prague where possible, but the school will also be live streamed so participants  can join live online if they cannot travel to the venue

Content

• Radiation protection principles applied to radiation shielding design
• Methodology for Diagnostic and interventional X ray Shielding (conventional, CT, IR)
• Methodology for Nuclear Medicine Shielding (conventional, PET, NM therapy)
• Methodology for Radiation Therapy Shielding (LINAC, special equipment, Proton)
• Radiation protection surveys
• Worked Examples

Organisers

Brendan McClean (Chair of the School)

Paddy Gilligan, Marco Brambilla (Scientific Chairs)

Jaroslav Ptáček, Tereza Hanušová (CAMP)

EFOMP in collaboration with the Hellenic Association of Medical Physics (HAMP) and the 2nd Department of Radiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens would like to invite you to the next ESMPE on 13^th-15^th October 2022.

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks connected with the use of statistical methods in data handling and interpretation. The school will cover the methods of inferential statistics most frequently used in the medical field, the statistical methods used in radiomics, the treatment of errors an uncertainties in radiation dosimetry. This course is designed to be accessible to all medical physicists including students and those working in clinical environments and are involved in data management and research.

This two-day event has been accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and awarded 39 CPD credit points (33 CPD credit points for those who do not sit for or do not pass the examination). As in past school editions, there will be an optional examination at the end for those seeking a higher level of certification beyond attendance.

ESMPE have decided this event will be in a hybrid format. Participants will be on-site in Athens where possible, but the school will also be live-streamed so participants can join live online if they cannot travel to the venue. Please note: All times shown are in Greek time (CET+1h).

Organisers: Brendan McClean (Chair of the School), Marco Brambilla (Scientific Chair), Efi Koutsouveli, Pola Platoni (HAMP)

EFOMP, in collaboration with the Czech Association of Medical Physicists (CAMP) and COCIR invite you to the next ESMPE on AI in Medical Physics. The school will be organized as a 2.5 days hybrid (remote and in presence) meeting, which will be held in Prague from 5^th to 7^th of October 2023.

The school will focus on advanced Medical Physics aspects of Artificial Intelligence and aims at presenting practical methodology, state-of-the-art and future developments of AI. In order to be able to participate to the school, the remote self-training part, available at https://e-learning.efomp.org/ , needs to be completed. Students who did not attend the on-line and propaedeutic module of the school will not be able to enroll to the face-to-face event.

The School is accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as a CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 with 41 CPD points. Attendees who also successfully pass the course examinations obtain an extra 17 CPD points for an overall total of 58 CPD points. The School is intended for Medical Physicists or associated professions who wish to expand their knowledge in Artificial intelligence. ESMPE have decided this event will be in a hybrid format. All lecturers will give their talks on-site in Prague but participants can choose if they want to attend the school on-site (limited number of participants) or online, it will be live-streamed.

Content for the face to face event

• AI for dose and protocol optimization
• AI for workflow optimization and automation
• Advanced Quality Assurance for AI medical devices
• Regulatory aspects
• Session with industry (only for in presence)

Organisers

Federica Zanca, Alberto Torresin (Scientific Chairs)

Brendan McClean (Chair of the ESMPE), Efi Koutsouveli (EFOMP Vice President)

Jaroslav Ptáček, Lucie Súkupová (CAMP)

The EFOMP and COCIR (The European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry) in collaboration with the Czech Association of Medical Physicists and the Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation of Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague would like to present the ESMPE e-learning course on Interventional Radiology 2019, obtained from the school's registration of EFOMP Summer School 2019.

The school will be aimed at advanced tasks connected with Angiographic Equipment. The school will particularly focus on advanced tasks , covering the main physics aspects of the angiographic equipment technology, patient and staff dosimetry and optimization.

The School is jointly organized by EFOMP and COCIR and is endorsed by ESR. Lecturers identified by COCIR will give insides on the new trends for angiographic equipment.

The two-and-half day event has been accredited by EBAMP (European Board of Accreditation for Medical Physics) as CPD event for Medical Physicists at EQF Level 8 and awarded 34 CPD credit points (25 CPD credit points for those who do not sit for or do not pass the examination) and is intended for practicing clinical Medical Physicists who are involved in the Interventional field.

Organizers: Jaroslav Ptáček, Tereza Kráčmerova (Czech Republic), Annalisa Trianni (Scientific Chair), Alberto Torresin (Chair of the School)

e-learning editing: AVC-ČVUT, z.s. and Christos Alexakos (EFOMP Web Master)

e-learning supervisor: Alberto Torresin