Current status and future trends of medical physics in Mexico

7th International Congress of Engineering Physics

物理学;工业技术

Azorin Nieto, J.^1

Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalpa, Av. San Rafael Atlixco 186, Col. Vicentina, Mexico, D.F

09340, Mexico^1

关键词: Current status;    Government agencies;    Hospital settings;    Medical physicists;    Medical physics;    Nonionizing radiation;    Quality and safeties;    Social components;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/582/1/012003/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/582/1/012003

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Medical Physics is an area that applies the principles of physics to medicine, particularly in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases using ionizing and nonionizing radiation. The main attractive of medical physics is that it has a direct impact on the quality and safety of medical care in humans; this social component with direct implications for the population is of high value for Mexico. This paper describes the concepts of medical physics, trends and the current status of this discipline as a profession, which is directly related to the efforts of clinical research. It is also described what is, in my opinion, the future of medical physics in Mexico, emphasizing the fact that this field requires a substantial boost from universities and hospitals to recruit highly qualified young medical physicists and the support from government agencies such as Secretaria de Salud, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social and Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales para los Trabajadores del Estado through clinical research projects that allow the necessary evolution of medical physics into the hospital setting.