MZ organizes division of tasks in radiotherapy

The proposed regulation organizes the division of tasks performed in radiation therapy by medical physicists, both specialists in medical physics and physicists without specialization in this field. The draft adopts the solution that medical physics specialists perform the following tasks: verification of treatment plans (§ 12(6)), supervision of dose control and irradiation time (§ 14(2)), approval of doses in the treatment plan, previously verified by measurement or independent calculations (§ 15), and approval of verification of treatment plans for static and dynamic techniques (§ 16(1)(7)), thus tasks of a supervisory-approval nature of activities that can be performed by other physicists. Indeed, other activities, such as checking dose and monitoring units (irradiation time), performing measurements or calculations for dose verification in the treatment plan, and performing dosimetric verification of treatment plans will be able to be performed by physicists without specialization in medical physics, including those in the process of specialization in this field.

Such a solution will, on the one hand, enable the safe implementation of radiotherapy procedures, and, on the other hand, ensure the proper use of the competence of medical physics specialists, while allowing physicists without specialization (including those in the process of specialization in medical physics) to gain experience in the implementation of radiotherapy.

Source: RCL