[P067] ’Themedicalphysicistanswers’ the Italian Association of Medical Physics (AIFM) website project at the service of the public
| Autor: | Bruno Italiano, Lorenzo Bianchi, Stefania delle Canne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Service (systems architecture) education.field_of_study Association (object-oriented programming) media_common.quotation_subject Population Biophysics Primary care physician General Physics and Astronomy General Medicine Medical physicist Email address Political science medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Medical physics In patient Quality (business) education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Physica Medica. 52:119-120 |
| ISSN: | 1120-1797 |
| Popis: | Purpose Nowadays, an increase in patient awareness about clinical risk leads public ask for understanding in a simple but scientific way what kind of risk is related to radiological procedures, prefiguring a need of a new social role for medical physicists. Likewise IAEA_Rpop, Image Wisely and Image Gently, in October 2013 the Italian Association of Medical Physics (AIFM) designed the project ‘Ilfisicomedicorisponde’ (‘themedicalphysicistanswers’) aiming at making medical physicists’ knowledge on quality and safety in medical radiation exposure easily available to the public. Methods ‘Ilfisicomedicorisponde’ ( https://www.fisicamedica.it/fisicomedicorisponde ) represents one of the main sections on the institutional AIFM website ( http://www.fisicamedica.it/ ); it consists of six modules developed by an editorial board of AIFM members with experience in different fields (radiology, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, NIR, EMF, pregnancy and pediatrics, energy, HTA). By the forum ‘#Ilfisicomedicorisponde’, patients or healthcare professionals are allowed to ask questions concerning physics issues in medicine, such as exposure risk, radioprotection,…, while an email address ( ilfisicomedicorisponde@gmail.com) gives the possibility of asking privately. Results To date more than 80,000 web visits (34% related to Radiology, 23% pregnancy or pediatric exposure, 10% Nuclear Energy, 10% EMF, and 23% other topics) have been recorded. Moreover, for questions related to medical issues (anesthesia, justification, etc.), and environmental issues (electromagnetic fields), a virtuous collaboration with radiologists and environmental experts has been established. A significant growth of section notoriety has been marked after the introduction of the forum, confirming the importance to update means of communication to increase visibility. Recently the positive response of the public and mass-media has led the association to inaugurate a new section, addressed to members, called ’medical physicists learn to answer’ whose aim is to provide insights and updating within the medical physicists community into topics of main interest to the population. Conclusions After about one year since its beginning, we do believe that the AIFM web section ‘themedicalphysicistanswers ‘,has garnered acclaim among the public and even among specialists (pediatrician, primary care physician, dentists,…), disseminating a scientific culture about radiation exposure effects and other issues related to medical physics, and has potential to become an influencer. |
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