Home   Scientific Committee   Organising Committee   Venue   Programme including abstracts, full papers and presentations   Social Programme   Conference Themes   Declaration   Photo Gallery   Contact organised by:     ETRAP 2005 23 - 25 November in Brussels, Belgium 3rd International Conference on Education and Training in Radiological Protection Title   Experiences from training courses of National Committee for implementation of QA in radiology in Slovakia Presented by   Horváthová, M. Institute(s)   Tenkva University, Faculty of Public Health and Social Work (SK) Description   Authors: M.  Horváthová  and  D.  Nikdemová Abstract: Council  Directive  97/43/EURATOM  establishes  that  member  states  shall  ensure  that  practitioners  and  technical  staff  in  medical  practice    have  adequate  theoretical  and  practical  training  for  the  purpose  of  radiological  practices  as  well  as  relevant  competence  in  radiation  protection.    This  is  considered  as  a  basic  aspect  of  optimisation  of  medical  exposure.  A  general  background  of  the  required  level  of  training  in  radiation  protection  is  given  in  Guidelines  on  education  and  training  in  radiation  protection  in  medical  exposures  published  by  European  Commission  (116/2000/EURATOM).  The  aim  of  our  paper  is  to  refer  about  a  new  education  system  with  recommendation  for  continuing  education  and  training  when  new  techniques  are  implemented  and  quality  assurance  and  quality  programmes  introduced,  realised  in  the  framework  of  activities  of  the  national  Committee  for  implementation  of  QA  programmes  in  radiology. Full paper   Horvathova.pdf   (76 KB - 77,549 bytes) << back