Table 2 Summary of the threats evidenced during SWOT analysis
Threats evidenced due to a lack of | |
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(1) Awareness of E&T in RP and Radiation Application in Medicine (RAM) for health professionals. The importance of E&T training remains present inside a small community or group only | (7) Cohesion between the health and research and the EURATOM communities (EURATOM with low engagement with clinical areas and the health community with low engagement with the EURATOM field) |
(2) Time/space or interest by higher education institutions to include E&T in RP and RAM in the curricula of health professions, especially for clinical disciplines | (8) Incentives regarding role development in RP and RAM, leading to health professionals not interested in these topics and in understanding new applications and developments in the field |
(3) Translation of real application of E&T in RP and RAM in the clinical setting and inclusion in life-long learning (LLL) for all health professionals involved in the application of ionising radiation. National Health Authorities are only focused on the inclusion of the requirement of E&T in RP and RAM and new technological developments in national legislation | (9) Sufficient importance to E&T in RP and RAM and new technological achievements by national scientific and professional societies which do not attach appropriate importance and or do not include them in consistently. |
(4) Importance placed upon the need for E&T in RP by clinical researchers who include medical imaging procedures in their studies (5) Awareness by hospital managers of E&T in RP and RAM importance | (10) Quality control of published document as outputs of previous EU-funded projects with social media and self-learning tools play an increasing role among health professionals. The low impact of E&T in RP and RAM documents increases the potential for sub-optimal information to be challenged |
(6) Holistic approach to radiation protection education. Considering that all EU projects until now were focused on/oriented to E&T of Radiation Protection Officer (RPO), Radiation Protection Expert (RPE) and Medical Physics Expert (MPE), the health professionals’ community has the impression that E&T in RP and RAM is only relevant for those group | |