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Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of January 18 – COMP Virtual ASM Dates/January 2021 InterACTIONS/AI and Breast Cancer/Patient Safety in X-Ray Imaging
The COMP Annual Scientific Meeting will be taking place virtually June 22 - 25. Get your COMP updates through the latest Message from the COMP President in the January...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of January 11 – COMP Virtual Winter School: Radiobiology of Stereotactic and Hypofractionated RT/NRC in a Time of COVID/COMP Career Centre Job Postings/Sylvia Fedoruk
Next Session in COMP Virtual Winter School: Radiobiology of Stereotactic and Hypofractionated RT. View the full program and register today here. Read about NRC in a Time...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the Week of January 4 – Happy New Year/COMP Virtual Winter School: Team Communications in SBRT/Life-Saving Radioisotopes
Happy New Year to the COMP Community! LAST WEEK to register for COMP Virtual Winter School with the early bird rate! Health Canada has approved Canadian method of...
Anna Celler
Dear Colleagues, I’m sad to write to inform you of the recent passing (December 24th, 2020) of Anna Celler. Many of you will have personally interacted with Anna and I’m...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of December 28 – Winter School Keynote Address/2020 COMP Award Winners/AAPM Women’s Professional Subcommittee
Don’t miss the COMP WS Keynote Address - unrivalled communicator Timothy Caulfield who debunks myths and assumptions about innovation in the health sector! Early bird...
COMP Statement Regarding Racism, Social Justice and Discrimination
COMP unequivocally condemns racism and discrimination, both within global society as a whole, but also within our own medical physics community. We are not immune from these...
COMP Endorses AAPM Position Statement on the Use of Patient Gonadal and Fetal Shielding
COMP officially endorsed this AAPM Position Statement at its Board meeting on June 25, 2019. COMP acknowledges that adopting these changes in Canada will take time and is...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the Week of Nov 2 – IDMP2020 Contest for Curie Cash!/Radiologists Handbook/New Underground Sources of Drinking Water/ IDMP Contest Submission
Only 8 days left!! Don’t forget to submit your IDMP 2020 “Medical Physicist as a Health Professional” photos! You could win Curie Cash which can be used towards COMP...
Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of November 9 – IDMP Contest Submission/Virtual Winter School Registration and Abstract Submission/Committee Updates in InterACTIONS/Unofficial Hormesis Podcast AAPM|COMP ASM Episode
#IDMP2020 Contest! A moment in history: digitized polaroid image of medical physicists performing measurements during the commissioning of a newly installed linac at the...
The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) First Annual EDI Survey
COMP’s Working Group Against Racism in Medical Physics is developing a survey to provide insight on how best to improve Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) within the...
