Human factors is the most important in ensuring quality and safety in radiology.The education, training, qualification and competence of the respective health professionals underpin radiation protection and safety in medical uses of ionizing radiation. The International Basic Safety Standards (BSS) published in the IAEA Safety Requirements series GSR Part 3 [1] requires the government of each Member State to ensure that requirements for education, training, qualification and competence are established and that arrangements are in place for the provision of the necessary education and training...

This paper presents the status of education and training on radiation protection of medical staff in the countries participating in the IAEA Technical cooperation project for Europe RER9147 "Enhancing Member States' Capabilities for Ensuring Radiation Protection of Individuals Undergoing Medical Exposure". Under this project, the IAEA organizedthree regional workshops in 2018: in April in Vienna on roles and responsibilities for radiation protection, in June in Tbilisi on Safety Appropriate use of imaging in Radiology (in Russian language), and in October 2018 in Coimbra, Portugal, onradiation...

Based on the findings from the IAEA meetings, the following recommendations were made for actions needed at national and international level: 1) Raise the importance of involvement of medical physicists in radiology, and work for recognition of medical physics as a profession. The medical physics involvement needs to be enforced through regulation but also through actions at the level of health authorities. 2) Work to overcome the gap in the professional education and training of radiographers, including radiation protection training. 3) Improve the education and...

Jenia Vassileva Radiation Protection Specialist Radiation Protection of Patients Unit Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety Department of Safety and Security International Atomic Energy Agency Vienna, Austria

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