Board-certified specialty training program in radiation oncology in a war-torn country: Challenges, solutions and outcomes

Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology - Tập 19 - Trang 46-51 - 2019
Layth Mula-Hussain1, Akhtar N. Shamsaldin2, Muthana Al-Ghazi3, Hawzheen Aziz Muhammad4, Shada Wadi-Ramahi5, Rabbie K. Hanna6, Abdulla Alhasso7
1Physician in Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute – University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2Consultant Medical Physicist, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq
3Clinical Professor & Director of Medical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine – University of California – Irvine, Orange, CA, USA
4College of Medicine, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq
5Biomedical Physics Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
6Wayne State University School of Medicine and Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
7Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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