International Initiatives

In an effort to provide training on an international scale the Dosimetry Training Tool is working with International Task groups within the AAPM to help identify countries that can utilize the DTT. We have agreed to allow unlimited use for countries that are recognized as "Low-income economies" by the World Bank. Lower-middle-income economies and Upper-middle-income economies will be charged are lowest minimum rate for thier subscriptions.

A list of qualified countries can be found here: World Bank Income Economy List

Low-income economies
Subscription Type	1 Year Subscription
	Up to 5 users	Each Additional User
Group Subscription	Free	Free
Individual Subscription		Free

Lower-middle-income economies and Upper-middle-income economies
Subscription Type	1 Year Subscription
	Up to 5 users	Each Additional User
Group Subscription	$500	$100
Individual Subscription		$100

All other countries
Subscription Type	1 Year Subscription
	Up to 5 users	Each Additional User
Group Subscription	$1,875	$375
Individual Subscription		$750

To find out more about how you can participate in Directing an "International Initiative" or Sponsoring an International Initiative please send us an email request and describe your interest. We will pass it on to the appropriate AAPM sub-committee for review and arrange the necessary individuals to contact you for more information.

Email your request at: support@dosimetrytrainingtool.com

Chinese Society of Medical Physics (CSMP): Prof. Yimin Hu, Chairman of the CSMP Grant Sponsership: Varian Medical Systems, Inc., of Palo Alto, California

The Chinese Society of Medical Physics (CSMP), with support from Varian Medical Systems, has launched a program to provide selected Chinese medical physics students with access to web-based medical Dosimetry Training Tool offered by Stanford University. The program will enroll physicist candidates from every province in China, plus fifteen graduate students from the leading teaching universities in China. The CSMP has chosen the first group of students from a field of over 200 who participated in the Dosimetry Training Tool trial program last year. The first of the Varian-sponsored hands-on workshops for students in the program, scheduled for July 30-August 1, 2009, was taught by two distinguished medical physics scholars and clinicians from the United States: Fang-Fang Yin, PhD, professor and chief of medical physics at Duke University and Joseph Ting, PhD, chief medical physicist at the MIMA Cancer Center in Melbourne Florida.

Latin America Program Director: Dr. Doracy Fontenla

Stanford University has agreed to provide the Dosimetry Training Tool to South American mentors by a special arrangement through the AAPM Latin American Affairs Subcommittee of the International Affairs Committee. Under the proposal, the Latin American Affairs Subcommittee would administer the use of the tool, that is, select the mentors according to appropriate critera and monitor the use of the tool using statistics available within the tool. No limit would be put on the number of mentors or students as long as they are legitimately involved in training dosimetrists and medical physicists. After one year the arrangement would be evaluated by Dr. Paul Keall Stanford University, the Latin American Affairs Subcommittee AAPM and Dr. Art Boyer to determine what the arrangement should be for the next year.