State of the medical physics profession in 2019

Automation, regulation, and collaboration: Threats and opportunities for clinical medical physics careers in diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine

“…Nevertheless, in the midst of uncertainty and change, we should consider our own future and how it fits into that of our larger healthcare environment. Recently, an editorial in this journal discussed the state of the medical physics profession in 2019 in terms of culture , quoting extensively from “the HP Way.” This was not a discussion about accreditation, radiation output calibrations, creation of databases using informatics tools, or other routine medical physics matters; rather, it drew on a set of affirmations about behaviors, expectations, and intentions, speaking to the way an organization will be and how it will do its work.…”