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Farhana Khan started with AAPM in May 1998 as a temporary staff person. After graduating in 1999, Farhana was hired full time to gear up for the AAPM’s management of the Chicago 2000 World Congress. After the World Congress, Farhana was named as AAPM’s Webmistress. Farhana is responsible for Web site and e-mail services for the AAPM and a number of other sites hosted by the AAPM. She is currently working on a major reorganization and redesign of the AAPM Web site. Clarise Gilmore, AAPM’s database administrator, is the newest member of the IS team. She joined the staff in May of this year and handles all technical matters related to the association’s databases as well as fulfillment of mailing list orders. Catherine Murashchyk came on board in September of 2002 as an applications developer. Catherine is responsible for design and implementation of new and existing database programs. She has developed an online tracking system for the Executive Committee to help manage the ever-increasing responsibilities of leadership, as well as several applications used by the HQ staff for process automation. She is currently developing an Online Educator’s Resource Guide for use by AAPM members. Coming next issue….group profile of the AAPM Accounting ■ team.
News from CAMPEP Brenda Clark CAMPEP President A longtime accredited residency program has recently been reaccredited for the second time. Congratulations to: Medical Physics Residency Program in Radiation Oncology University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Director: Bruce J. Gerbi Still on the topic of residency training, don’t forget the AAPM Annual Meeting’s Education Council Symposium scheduled for Sunday, July 24, 9:30-11:00AM. The session is dedicated to Physics Residency Programs and will focus on accreditation. The Residency Program Review Committee members are also busy with two new program applications, both of which are under preliminary review. A third new application has undergone the complete process and is awaiting final approval from the CAMPEP Board. There are also four graduate programs in the process of being reviewed, two for reaccreditation and two which are new applications. To give you an understanding of why this review sometimes takes such a long time, consider this:
When we attempted to schedule one of these site visits at the beginning of May, we found that the earliest date that all members of the site review team, as well as the appropriate program faculty, were available would be nearly four months away. Much of this delay is caused by summer vacations and meetings, but part of the reason is that a relatively large number of people are involved, all of whom are busy without even considering their CAMPEP activities. The Continuing Education group has recently developed a list of criteria to determine whether a program is appropriate for accreditation. According to these new criteria, whether a continuing education program may be accredited or not depends only on it’s content and targeted audience. Take a look at the list on the Web site and let us know if it achieves its objective and clarifies the situation. The latest news on the software is that Lisa Rose Sullivan and Michael Woodward are having weekly meetings with the database developers who are in the final stages of program testing and have promised “final” delivery of the application process by mid-June. Stay tuned!
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