What is Medical Physics 3.0?

Redefining and Reinvigorating the Role of Physics in Modern Medicine.

Medical Physics is at a crossroads. Broad and profound changes in the delivery of healthcare are underway and accelerating, and it is urgent for our profession to address these changes head-on.

We are faced with new mandates to deliver value-based, personalized, and evidence-based medicine. Reimbursements are diminishing at the same time. These realities necessitate medical physics to change. In any progression of this nature, it is crucial to understand the goals and proactively set a standard that can clarify, unify, and motivate the advancement.

Sustainable Practice

Medical Physics 3.0 (MP3.0) is an initiative to define and practice sustainable excellence in medical physics. MP3.0 is re-visiting our roots and re-envisioning our desired contributions to quality healthcare.

Precision and Innovation

It asks the question of whether we are fulfilling our potential, and if we are not, how we can do so. MP3.0 is based on the core premise that medical physicists have a unique calling and expertise to be scientific agents of precision and innovation in the development and practice of medicine.

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Unique Skills of Medical Physicists

MP3.0 aims to foster a culture within medical physics of seizing such opportunities, engaging proactively and meaningfully in patient care, and growing and building upon the unique skills of medical physicists.

For the complete description, please see the excellent presentation “What is Medical Physics 3.0”.

Road Map of MedPhys 3.0

Towards this goal, the MP3.0 initiative is devising a road map focused on the following items.

Expertise

Delineating the global definitions of excellence for medical physics in scholarship, innovation, patient care, leadership, and context-awareness.

Clinical: Advancing medical physicists beyond the conformance-based technology-care provider to the scientific, quality-bound healthcare provider.

Administrative: Modeling leadership and management skills and attributes for confident and effective practice (in collaboration with the Medical Physics Leadership Academy).

Scientific: Setting the models of scientific excellence and innovation in all domains of medical physics in recognition of its interplay with associated disciplines (e.g. engineering, biomedicine, informatics).

Educational: Encouraging updated and enhanced teaching skills to empower and to improve human health around the world.

Visibility

Developing targeted marketing, advocacy, and communication tools to effectively articulate value-based medical physics.

Sustainability

Modeling MP3.0 practices that can be achieved and sustained.

Encouraging pragmatic resources for MP3.0 practice.

Expansion

Clinical: Identifying and encouraging areas of clinical growth where care can be enhanced with new physics contributions including robust pathways for translation of science to practice.

Scientific: Encouraging opportunities and claiming roles for meaningful engagement of physics in all areas of medicine, including domains beyond radiation medicine.

Educational: Devising and encouraging enhanced educational opportunities to position the physicist to have the competence and the confidence to fulfill his/her unique role as a scientist and as a practitioner along the MP3.0 objectives.