Comments on: A Reader’s Question: Losing CAMPEP Accreditation? http://www.mdphysics.com/a-readers-question-losing-campep-accreditation/ A weblog for and by the medical physics community Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:49:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: MedPhysPhD http://www.mdphysics.com/a-readers-question-losing-campep-accreditation/comment-page-1/#comment-314 MedPhysPhD Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:10:08 +0000 http://www.mdphysics.com/?p=679#comment-314 They just updated the CAMPEP grad program list after this year's RSNA meeting. Did any programs get de-listed? They just updated the CAMPEP grad program list after this year’s RSNA meeting. Did any programs get de-listed?

]]> By: MedPhysPhD http://www.mdphysics.com/a-readers-question-losing-campep-accreditation/comment-page-1/#comment-83 MedPhysPhD Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:13:27 +0000 http://www.mdphysics.com/?p=679#comment-83 Since CAMPEP is (supposedly) going to great lengths at the moment to help as many grad and residency programs as possible become accredited, I think that something relatively major would have to happen for the CAMPEP status of a grad program to be fully withdrawn With 2012 and 2014 you only have a two year window in which a CAMPEP degree will allow you to do something that a residency will not (that being sign up for ABR before 2014). After the 2014 deadline you'll have to do a CAMPEP residency (or the equivalent), regardless. Additionally, it sounds like, as part of the fall out of 2012/2014, most junior physicist positions will be "converted" to residencies or rather just pay residency level salaries (and many may plain disappear not long after 2014). Worst case scenario: your program does lose its CAMPEP stamp and you are not considered a CAMPEP graduate, you should probably do a CAMPEP residency. I think most residencies will still consider your program CAMPEP-level, unless something egregious has happened (e.g. something bad resulting in most of the faculty leaving). Even then, it is not your fault as a student, so you should focus on making yourself attractive as a potential candidate (strong recs, posters/presentations/publications, clinical hours, etc). Since CAMPEP is (supposedly) going to great lengths at the moment to help as many grad and residency programs as possible become accredited, I think that something relatively major would have to happen for the CAMPEP status of a grad program to be fully withdrawn

With 2012 and 2014 you only have a two year window in which a CAMPEP degree will allow you to do something that a residency will not (that being sign up for ABR before 2014). After the 2014 deadline you’ll have to do a CAMPEP residency (or the equivalent), regardless. Additionally, it sounds like, as part of the fall out of 2012/2014, most junior physicist positions will be “converted” to residencies or rather just pay residency level salaries (and many may plain disappear not long after 2014).

Worst case scenario: your program does lose its CAMPEP stamp and you are not considered a CAMPEP graduate, you should probably do a CAMPEP residency. I think most residencies will still consider your program CAMPEP-level, unless something egregious has happened (e.g. something bad resulting in most of the faculty leaving). Even then, it is not your fault as a student, so you should focus on making yourself attractive as a potential candidate (strong recs, posters/presentations/publications, clinical hours, etc).

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