The use of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation devices in diagnostic radiology has reached more than 7000 units throughout Indonesia.

The utilization of ionizing radiation requires high accuracy and quality to ensure radiation safety for patients, radiation workers, and the public.

To achieve quality and safety goals, it is necessary to strengthen Medical Physicists in the field of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, especially in University Hospitals.

This is because the University Hospital is an educational facility that can become a training center for the medical physics profession in the surrounding area.

Therefore, Dr. Supriyanto Pawiro, a lecturer at the Department of Physics, FMIPA UI and also the chairman of the Alliance of Indonesian Medical Physicists (AFISMI), submitted a proposal for the development of medical physicists at RSUI to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The proposal, which had been delayed, finally received funding, which will be released in 2020, amounting to 100,000 Euros.

In its implementation, it will involve several university hospitals throughout Indonesia, both government and private.