Original scientific paper
Training for professional health physicists
G. Hoyt Whipple
; Škala narodnog zdravlja Sveučilišta Michigan, Ann Arbour, SAD
Abstract
The term, health physicist, has come .into quite general use to designate a person concerned with the evaluation and control of radiation hazards. These activities have taken so many varied forms in recent years that no single training program can, or should, be devised to prepare an individual for all the problems that a health physicist may be expected to encounter. The situation is quite similar to that in training engineers, and as in engineering training, it is possible to select certain basic training that at professionals in the field should have and to suggest alternate courses of specialization to follow the basic training. The types of responsibilities which a health physicist may be called on into meet in industry, research laboratories and in governmental regulatory agencis are presented briefly to serve as a guide to the necessary training. The basic training, undergraduate and graduate, that is considered necessary for all health physicists is outlined and discussed. Several possible courses of specialization Ieading to a Master's degree are presented, and some general principles for the formulation of Ph. D. programs in health physics are discussed. Finally, the importance of adequately trained professionals in the field and of recognized standards for this training are pointed out.
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182946
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Publication date:
17.12.1959.
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