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1 EBAMP European Board for Accreditation in Medical Physics ACCREDITED EVENTS up to June 30th, 2018 App ID Institution Name Event Type Event Title Event Date Event Venue EBAMP CPD points APP ESTRO Course Imaging for Physicists 23/09/2018 Vienna. Austria 43 APP ESTRO Course Advanced Brachytherapy Physics 07/10/2018 Valencia. Spain 34 APP EANM Course ESMIT Spring School - Theranostics Track 03/05/2018 Vienna. Austria 27 APP EFOMP Course ESMPE. Fundamentals of Nuclear Medicine Dosimetry 22/08/2018 Copenhagen. Denmark 14 APP EFOMP Course ESMPE. IMRT VMAT planning in practice 22/08/2018 Copenhagen. Denmark 17

2 APP IBA Dosimetry Seminar 3 rd IBA Dosimetry Symposium 19/04/2018 Barcelona. Spain 19 APP EFOMP Course ESMPE. Statistics in Medical Physics 22/08/2018 Copenhagen. Denmark 14 APP EFOMP 2nd European of Medical Physics 25/08/2018 Copenhagen. Denmark 23 APP Städtisches Klinikum Braunschweigg GmbH Seminar EUTEMPE-RX: Perssonel dosimetry and techniques to communicate practical results to the users 16/04/2018 Braunschweig. Germany 118 APP Czech Association of Medical Physicists World on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 03/06/2018 Prague. Czech Republic 38 APP Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine Conference 9 th Annual Scientific Meeting 17/02/2018 Derry/Londonderry. Northern Ireland 10 APP Investnet Healthcare Conference Annual Irish Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Symposium 28/05/2018 Dublin. Ireland 14 APP ESTRO Course Dose Modelling and Verification for External Beam Radiotherapy 10/06/2018 Dublin. Ireland 48 APP University of Crete Course EUTEMPE-RX MPE11: Radiation dose management of pregnant patients, pregnant staff and paediatric patients in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology 21/05/2018 Crete. Greece 110

3 APP ESTRO Course MRI Physics for Applications in Radiation Oncology 20/04/2018 Barcelona. Spain 15 APP IBA Dosimetry Workshop myqa user meeting 23/11/2017 Schwarzenbruck. Germany 21 APP EFOMP Course ESMPE. Computed Tomography: Technology, Dosimetry, Optimization 25/01/2018 Prague.CzechRepublic 34 APP SEFM Course Online Brachytherapy Update Course 02/04/2018 online course 49 APP The Institute Cancer Research Course A Course in Radiotherapy Physics: Accelerator Design and Quality Control, Radiobiology, Brachytherapy and Radiotherapy Verification Imaging APP The Institute of Cancer Research Course A Course in Radiotherapy Physics: Radiation Dosimetry, Imaging for Radiotherapy, Treatment Planning and Patient Specific Dosimetry 06/03/2018 London. UK 36 07/11/2017 Surrey. UK 36 APP ESTRO Course Imaging for Physicists 05/11/2017 Málaga. Spain 45 APP Nordic Association for Clinical Physics - Radiological Physics Committee Course Occupational Dosimetry in Hospitals 27/09/2017 Stockholm. Sweden 22

4 APP Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Course EUTEMPE-RX MPE06: The development of advanced QA protocols for testing radiological devices 13/11/2017 Leuven. Belgium 117 APP EANM - European Association of Nuclear Medicine EANM'17-30th Annual of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine 21/10/2017 Vienna. Austria 29 APP International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology (ICARO2) 20/06/2017 Vienna. Austria 32 APP Royal Surrey County Hospital Course EUTEMPE-RX MPE07: Optimization of X-ray imaging using standard and innovative techniques 15/06/2017 online course 91 APP The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust & The Institute of Cancer Research Course Physics of Ultrasound Imaging 22/11/2017 London. UK 38 APP University of Ferrara Course EUTEMPE-RX MPE04: Innovation & Advanced X-ray physics for imaging devices in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology 01/07/2017 Trieste. Italy 116 APP The Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine Workshop 8th IAPM Annual Scientific Meeting: Workshop 24/03/2017 Dublin. Ireland 7 APP The Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine Conference 8th IAPM Annual Scientific Meeting 25/03/2017 Dublin. Ireland 10

5 APP Royal Surrey County Hospital Course EUTEMPE-RX MPE07: Optimization of X-ray imaging using standard and innovative techniques (face-to-face and online course) 15/06/2017 Guilford. UK 123 APP ESTRO Course Physics for modern radiotherapy (joint course for clinicians and physicists) APP EFOMP Course ESMPE-European School for Medical Physics Experts. Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Advanced clinical applications-safety aspects- Quality controls 04/06/2017 Bucharest. Romania 57 06/07/2017 Prague. Czech Republic 37 APP IBA - ICC Course Small Fields and FFF: The New Regulation DIN in Theory and Hands-on Practice 31/03/2017 Schwarzenbruck. Germany 23 APP ESTRO Course Physics Pre-meeting Course: Medical Physics aspects of Particle Therapy APP Technical University of Catalonia Course EUTEMPE-RX MPE03: Monte Carlo Simulation of X-ray imaging and dosimetry APP ESTRO Course Dose Modelling and Verification for External Beam Radiotherapy 05/05/2017 Vienna. Austria 14 01/05/2017 Barcelona. Spain /04/2017 Warsaw. Poland 35 APP Beacon Hospital Dublin Conference 5th Beacon Hospital International Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy 24/05/2017 Dublin. Ireland 15

6 APP Technical University of Varna Course EUTEMPE-RX MPE05: Physical and virtual anthropomorphy phantoms for image quality and patient dose optimization 22/05/2017 Varna. Bulgaria 136 APP Serbian Association of Medical Physicists (SAMP) & Radiation Protection Society of Serbia and Montenegro (DZZSCG) 8th Alpe-Adria Medical Physics Meeting (8th AAMPM 2017) 25/05/2017 NoviSad. Serbia 7 APP Dutch Reference Centre for Screening (LRCB) Course EUTEMPE-RX MPE09: Achieving Quality in Diagnostic and Screening Mammography 15/01/2017 Nijmegen. The Netherlands 103 APP EFOMP Course EUTEMPE-RX MPE01: Leadership in Medical Physics - Development of the Profession and the Challenges for the MPE (D&IR) 01/11/2016 Prague. Czech Republic 115

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