Stop lecturing and start teaching
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Whether this distribution of effort is correct may be subject to debate, but at least a significant portion of the workload of many medical physicists is spent in education. Especially for medical physicists in an academic setting, much of this time is spent in formal courses — teaching medical physics students, medical residents, or allied health personnel such as radiography students and radiation therapy technology students. Given that a medical physicist’s responsibilities often include formal teaching, I want to challenge medical physicists who are involved in formal teaching with two questions:
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