NACMPA Offers Mentorship to Students in China Enrolled in Dosimetry Training Tool Program
The web-based Dosimetry Training Tool (DTT) program, sponsored by Varian and registered in the Stanford School of Medicine, is utilized to provide educational training for Chinese junior physicists/dosimetrists. There are more than 80 students currently enrolled in China, coordinated by Professor Xu Xiao from the Chinese Society of Medical Physics (CSMP). NACMPA will soon be, partnered with CSMP, also offering mentorship to those Chinese students. Therefore, we need to recruit about 20 volunteers among our association to be the mentors for achieving a goal consisting of student/teacher ratio of 3-4, with possible future adjustment for various enrolled student number.
In addition, we would like to call to establish a fund within NACMPA to support these efforts. The fund could include paying the DTT license fee for the volunteered mentors. If any NACMPA member has interest being a mentor to those DTT students in China or making a donation to the fund, please contact any of the NACMPA officers at secretary@nacmpa.org. Thank you for your attention!
Jack Yang, Ph.D. President, NACMPA
August 27, 2010