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This year’s 15^th edition of the National Conference “Ionising Radiation in Medicine” PJOMED 2024, organised by the National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care, will be held on June 3-4, 2024 as a hybrid event: at the European Institute in Łódź and online on the web platform.

CONFERENCE THEMES:

This year’s PJOMED 2024 Conference will cover issues related to radiological procedures, particularly important for radiation protection of patient, especially in radiotherapy and interventional radiology.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: here

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS BOOKLET: here

HONORARY PATRONS OF THE EVENT:

	Minister of Health
	President of the National Atomic Energy Agency
	Polish Medical Society of Radiology
	Polish Society of Nuclear Medicine

• National Consultant for Radiation Oncology
• National Consultant for Nuclear Medicine
• National Consultant for radiology and diagnostic imaging

CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS:

The conference is intended for:

• persons performing and supervising medical radiology procedures (physicians, medical physicists, medical engineers, electro-radiology technicians, nurses);
• radiation protection inspectors;
• employees of the State Sanitary Inspection;
• laboratory personnel performing quality control tests of medical radiology equipment;
• persons responsible for management in healthcare facilities;
• everyone who is interested in issues relating to the medical use of ionising radiation in medicine.

Conference participants will receive credits in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation of the Minister of Health of 21 February 2022 on the ways of fulfilling the obligation of professional development of physicians and dentists (consolidated text, Dz.U. of 2022, item 464).

Conference participants will be able to receive 5 credits in connection with the requirement to improve their qualifications in the field of patient radiation protection in accordance with Article 33n (4)(3) of the Act – Atomic Law (consolidated text, Dz. U. of 2023, item 1173).

Persons interested in delivering a speech at the PJOMED 2024 Conference are kindly requested to send – by e-mail only to: pjomed2024@nullkcor.gov.pl – their proposed topics, including details of the authors and contact details, until April 26, 2024. Applicants will be notified by electronic mail (e-mail) whether their proposals have been qualified for inclusion in the Conference agenda.

REGISTRATION AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION:

• The National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care is the organiser of the 15th National Conference “Ionising Radiation in Medicine” PJOMED 2024, which will be held on June 3-4, 2024, in hybrid format: on-site, at the Didactic and Conference Centre of the European Institute in Lodz, 258/260 Piotrkowska Street, and online (via the ClickMeeting platform).
• Registration shall be made using electronic means only, by filling in the registration form (link available at the bottom of the page).
• Registration fee is 450,00 PLN per person.
• The registration fee can be paid using a traditional method (bank transfer) or electronically (payment via PayU).
• Students are entitled to a 50% discount on the registration fee. Discounted fee (225,00 PLN) can be paid only by traditional method (bank transfer). For more information, please contact us at: pjomed2024@nullkcor.gov.pl.
• The registration deadline falls on May 27, 2024 (Monday) at 12 p.m.
• Cancellation of participation in the PJOMED 2024 Conference can only be made in writing. The cancellation can be sent by post or by e-mail to the following address: pjomed2024@nullkcor.gov.pl. The cancellation notice must contain the cancelling person’s details and bank account number for the refund of the registration fee.
  IMPORTANT: In the case of receiving information about cancellation of participation in the Conference after 12:00 p.m. on May 27, 2024 (Monday) the registration fee is not refundable.
  
  IMPORTANT: To complete Conference Registration Process (after the registration form has been filled in) in each case you need to press “Buy ticket”/”Pay” button. This is also required when the payment for participation in the Conference will be made using methods of payment other than PayU, e.g. by traditional bank transfer.

Payment:

• PayU payment:
  After filling in the registration form, press the “Buy ticket”/”Pay” button and follow instructions – a window to select available electronic payment methods will unfold (PayU does not charge any commission from the payers).
• Payment by other means, e.g. traditional bank transfer:
  A traditional bank transfer can be made at a later time: after filling in the registration form you need to press “Buy Ticket”/”Pay” button and then the web page of the form closes without further payment procedure. Data filled in the form will be automatically saved in the system supporting the Conference. After making the payment to the following bank account number: 54 1010 1371 0015 1522 3100 0000 by May 24, 2024 at the latest, the participant’s account will be activated and the participant will be notified of this fact by e-mail via the address provided during registration. Please provide the first and last name(s) of the person(s) to whom the payment relates and the note: ”PJOMED 2024 Registration Fee” in the title of the transfer.

Onsite/online participation:

Conference participants declare the choice of their participation – onsite or online – at the time of registration by checking the relevant field in the registration form (obligatory field).

Link to registration form: registration completed

Information on the processing of personal data: here

CONFERENCE-RELATED INFORMATION IS PROVIDED THROUGH: 

Education and Publications Department, National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care Smugowa 6, 91- 433 Łódź
tel.: + 48 42 2032910 fax: 42 6550489 e-mail: pjomed2024@nullkcor.gov.pl

We heartily invite you to participate in the opening metting of the IAEA TC Project POL9028 (Preventing Tissue Reactions in Interventional Procedures) carried out by the National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care as part of the technical cooperation of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The event will be held on March 26-27, 2024.

More information about symposium are available in the Project POL9028- Opening meeting – March 26-27, 2024 tab

We would like to inform that in 2024, the National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care will start implementing a new project POL9028 entitled “Preventing Tissue Reactions in Interventional Procedures”. The project will be implemented as part of the Technical Cooperation Programme of the International Atomic Energy Agency and is addressed to interventional radiology centres from all over the country.

The project aims to raise the awareness of medical staff participating in the implementation of interventional procedures by promoting those procedures in which radiation protection of the patient is part of good medical practice. During the implementation of the Project, many training courses are planned, enriched with a series of open workshops and study visits to leading foreign interventional radiology centres. In addition, it is also planned to conduct the first national survey on the occurrence of deterministic effects resulting from the interventional procedures, which will set the scene for the future efforts in promoting awareness and safety culture. The main goal is also creating of Simulation Centre in NCRPHC with IR virtual training simulator including the radiation protection module and mobile real-time personal dosimetry system to train medical staff in the field of interventional radiology procedures, including real-time visualization of ionizing radiation and its impact on the dose to the patient and staff.

All materials regarding lectures and other speeches by experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency will be made available on our website and on the National Centre’s YouTube channel.

We encourage you to visit the NCRPHC website and the Project IAEA TC POL9028  tab to follow current events regarding the project!

This year’s 15th edition of the National Conference “Ionising Radiation in Medicine” PJOMED 2024, organised by the National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care, will be held on June 3-4, 2024 as a hybrid event: in Łódź and online on the web platform. More information coming soon.

National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care (NCRPHC) has prepared the Polish language version of two important documents on clinical audits, which are the official position of the HERCA association (Heads of the European Radiological Protection Competent Authorities), the Working Group on Medical Applications.

The translated documents have already been made available for download on the website of the National Centre:

• “HERCA Position Paper Clinical Audit in medical Radiological practices, October 2019”:
  – Polish translation
  – original document in English
• “Addendum to the HERCA clinical audit position paper, HERCA-WGMA – June 2021”:
  – Polish translation
  – original document in English

(Other documents presenting official position of HERCA are available in English on the website: https://www.herca.org/documents/)

The first document presents, among others: the definition of a clinical audit and its cycle, clinical audits in terms of Directive 97/43/Euratom, other audits and inspections of radiological practices, expectations towards a clinical audit and challenges related to its implementation, and international and European clinical audit initiatives.

The second document, which is an annex and complements the first one, details the definition of a clinical audit under the BSS Directive and explains the differences between a clinical audit, a regulatory audit, and an inspection. It also discusses specific audit examples in the UK. Both documents also contain literature about audits and related European regulations.

HERCA members are the Radiation Safety Authorities in Europe, represented by their heads – the association includes 56 offices from 32 European countries. The main goal of HERCA is cooperation for radiation protection. Meetings of international experts are intended to discuss problems related to radiation protection and to develop common solutions to them. HERCA is also a forum for the share of information and experience, regarding the practical transposition of European legislation and international recommendations, for Radiation Safety Authorities.

The NCRPHC initiative to translate HERCA documents into Polish, which is part of the tasks of the National Centre in increasing the availability of publications on the use of ionising radiation in medicine, is intended to support Polish doctors, radiologists and other people interested in the use of ionising radiation in medicine in the fuller use of European solutions and proper understanding issues related to clinical audits. It may also contribute to greater appreciation of the importance of clinical audits in building and improving good radiological practices that serve the well-being of patients.

We encourage you to use the Polish versions of HERCA documents we provide!