Medical physics workforce modelling: do we need what we want?

Internationally trained medical physicists should be certified, through ACPSEM, in order to be employed in Australia and New Zealand as Radiation Oncology Medical Physicists

“…It is worth reiterating that employment of ROMPs into active medical physics roles, in Australia or New Zealand, is not undertaken by ACPSEM but rather by the LHD/DHB. Staffing, retention and recruitment of qualified ROMPs is an ongoing issue which is well documented [13][14][15][16]. The Tripartite National Strategic Plan for Radiation Oncology, Stakeholder Consultation, included an increasing dependence on overseas recruitment as one of the factors that impact on the radiation oncology workforce [17].…”

Estimated size of the clinical medical imaging physics workforce in the United States

“…As of 2020, there are 29 CAMPEP‐accredited imaging physics residency programs, and it is not clear whether the current output of these programs will be "right‐sized" to the job market or will result in an oversupply or shortage of imaging physicists. As both the size of the medical physics workforce and the number of residency programs have grown, there is now an interest in supply and demand modeling to better quantify the true size of the needed workforce 4 …”

“…As both the size of the medical physics workforce and the number of residency programs have grown, there is now an interest in supply and demand modeling to better quantify the true size of the needed workforce. 4 The AAPM established the Diagnostic Demand and Supply Projection Working Group in 2019 to gather data from a variety of sources, develop and validate demand and supply models,and prepare future projections of the training and employment landscape for medical imaging physicists. In this study, the Working Group members collected and synthesized publicly available data to estimate the size of the clinical imaging physics workforce as of 2019 and compared current and historical data with projections made in the past and results of other recent estimates.…”

Big shoes to fill

“…Martin's tenure saw the change to publishing with the Springer-Nature publishing house which now handles such tasks, including managing an online submission system (Editorial Manager) and the move to online publishing [8]. Martin also grew the use of editorials, which is an important avenue for people to share their wisdom on a variety of topics [5,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], including Martin's own wisdom gained in his role [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31].…”