MEDICAL PHYSICS EDUCATION: SELECTED CHALLENGES FOR UKRAINE

Abstract

The training of specialists in medical physics, which is based on the combination of medicine and physics, has already developed stability in the world community. This is a new direction for Ukraine that requires standardization and harmonization with existing international practices. In the paper the analyzes of the publications of scientists in a combination of the tags "medical physics" and "education" with the aim of finding patterns regarding the support and development of the considered field throughout the world and in Ukraine. The peculiarities of international cooperation are considered, the circle of leading publications in scientific fields is outlined, and the factors influencing the institutions of different countries on the development of medical physics are analysed. The study is based on the results of data published in the international scientometric database Scopus. An overview analysis of some key approaches used in the universities of Ukraine and Poland in the development of this direction was carried out, and recommendations for Ukrainian specialists were formulated on their basis.

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