Medical Physics During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Perspectives in Clinical Practice, Education and Research

The COVID-19 virus has had an unparalleled impact on clinical practice, education, and research in medical physics. This book explores how colleagues on the frontline dealt with the pandemic, tackles key questions, and highlights the different experiences of regional medical physicists. It contains key perspectives from teams from each territory and explores the collective opinion and wisdom from journal editors-in-chief. Voices of early-career researchers and students are also included, with narratives of their experiences coping with life during the pandemic.

Format: Hardback
Length: 182 pages
Publication date: 11 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Over 91 contributors from 39 countries,including key perspectives from teams in each territory.
The COVID-19 virus has had an unparalleled impact on all aspects of our lives, spreading to every corner of the Earth. This book explores in detail how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected clinical practice, education, and research in medical physics, and how colleagues on the frontline dealt with this unpredictable and unprecedented pandemic. It tackles key questions such as: How did medical physicists first respond to the situation? What innovative strategies were taken, and how effective were they? How are medical physicists preparing for the future?

There will be a focus on the different experiences of regional medical physicists and the responses and outlooks in clinical practice, education, and research in the affected continents, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North and Latin America. With over 91 contributors from 39 countries, this unique resource contains key perspectives from teams in each territory to ensure a global range of accounts.

The collective opinion and wisdom from the major medical physics journal editors-in-chief are also explored, alongside how the pandemic has affected the quantity and quality of publications. Voices of early-career researchers and students of medical physics will be included, with narratives of their experiences coping with life during the pandemic. Lastly, communicating leadership in times of adversity is highlighted.

This book will be a historic account of the impact of the COVID-19 virus on the field of medical physics. It will be an ideal reference for medical physicists, medical physics trainees, and students, hospital administrators, regulators, and healthcare professionals allied with medical physics.

Key features:

The first book to cover the impact of COVID-19 on the field of medical physics.

Over 91 contributors from 39 countries, including key perspectives from teams in each territory.

Weight: 352g
Dimension: 144 x 224 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367693756