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Varian Medical Systems sponsored training program to improve the dosimetry skills of medical physicists from cancer treatment centers across China

The Chinese Society of Medical Physics (CSMP), with support from Varian Medical Systems, has launched a program to provide selected Chinese medical physics students with access to web-based medical dosimetry training offered by Stanford University.  Varian Medical Systems will be providing funds for the enrollment fees for the venture. In addition, Varian Medical Systems will sponsor practical hands-on training sessions to be led by leading physicists from around the world in the company’s new Beijing Education Center.

"The purpose of this educational program is to improve students’ medical physics training so they can better apply their skills to help treat cancer patients with advanced forms of radiation therapy," said Ling Zhang, Varian Medical Systems marketing manager in Beijing, where the company also operates a manufacturing facility. "Although there are 1200 medical physicists in China, many of them may benefit from additional medical physics training.

"The program will enroll physicist candidates from every province in China, plus fifteen graduate students from the leading teaching universities in China," said Thomas Duffy, marketing and business development director for Varian Medical Systems Beijing Co. Ltd. "The CSMP has chosen the first group of students from a field of over 200 who participated in a trial program last year."

The first of the Varian-sponsored hands-on workshops for students in the program, scheduled for July 30-August 1, 2009, was taught by two distinguished medical physics scholars and clinicians from the United States: Fang-Fang Yin, PhD, professor and chief of medical physics at Duke University and Joseph Ting, PhD, chief medical physicist at the MIMA Cancer Center in Melbourne Florida.

Source: Varian Medical Systems