Responding to the ever-changing healthcare field, medical physicists are obligated to utilize their expertise to provide precise, consistent, and optimal patient-centered care. Medical Physics Program Director Dr. Samei, current chair of AAPM Medical Physics 3.0 initiative, recently published an article titled, “Medical Physicists Bring New Value to Patient-Centered Care” for PSQH (Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare). In this article, Dr. Samei discusses aspects medical physicists can address to have a more direct role in patient care, such as optimizing imaging dose and quality through better monitoring, developing a universal metric of radiation objective, and making imaging modalities, with an emphasis on making MRI safer for patients with stimulators. He concludes by highlighting that medical physicists bring unique value to healthcare by enabling innovative, personalized precise care through clinical application of physical sciences.
