A comprehensive SWOT audit of the role of the biomedical physicist in the education of healthcare professionals in Europe

Authors	CARUANA Carmel J. WASILEVSKA-RADWANSKA M. AURENGO A. DENDY P.P. KARENAUSKAITE V. MALISAN M.R. MEIJER J.H. MIHOV D. MORNSTEIN Vojtěch ROKITA E. VANO E. WECKSTROM M. WUCHERER M.
Year of publication	2010
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Physica Medica : European Journal of Medical Physics
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Medicine
Citation
Field	Biophysics
Keywords	Biomedical physics education; Medical education; Academic role development; Curriculum development; SWOT audit
Description	Although biomedical physicists provide educational services to the healthcare professions in the most universities in Europe, their precise role in the education of the healthcare professions has not been studied systematically. This paper reports the results of a SWOT audit for the role of the biomedical physicist in the education of the healthcare professions in Europe. Internal Strengths and Weaknesses of the role were identified through a qualitative survey of biomedical physics departments and biomedical physics curricula across Europe. External environmental Opportunities and Threats were identified through a systematic survey of the healthcare, healthcare professional education and higher education literature and categorized under standard political, economic, social-psychological, technological-scientific) categories. The paper includes an appendix of terminology.