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[QUOTE="Choppy, post: 5718265, member: 127425"] As I understand it, the DMP programs are pretty much that - an MSc with a residency tacked on that you have to pay for. From a student's point of view, I can see why they're appealing. You avoid the uncertainty of getting a residency after investing a minimum of two years of your life into the field. And even from a professional point of view there are arguments in favour of tying the two aspects of the training together rather than introducing a bottleneck between them. There is also the argument that the PhD route is over-training people who will end up in clinical positions and end up doing very little research over the course of their careers because many of the MSc medical physics do the job extremely well. My concerns about the DMP programs are the following. The first is that residents need to be paid for their work. A residency is not exclusively a training position like a internship. Medical physics residents do a lot of (supervised) work for the departments they're in. They commission new equipment, develop new tools and procedures, take on a lot of the day-to-day quality control measurements, they check plans, etc. All of this requires proper training and vetting of course, but overall a resident should be a net gain for a department. And that needs to be recognized and reimbursed. Secondly, if the residency is just treated as a series of training modules, labs and job shadows, or if the presence of the resident is a net loss for the department, then the resident is not gaining the full range of clinical experience that residencies were set up to provide. There is also an argument in favour of a bottleneck for the profession overall. Not every student is going to make a good clinician. If you have a student who pays his or her tuition in such a program, there is an obligation to put them through the clinical training portion of it without that same opportunity to decline them if you're not confident they will be able to handle the work with the degree of professionalism and maturity that they need (even if their marks ate good). [/QUOTE]
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