The history and contributions of the EFOMP science committee: an overview.

For over twenty years, the scientific committee of EFOMP has played an important role supporting the European medical physics community. In its management of special interest groups in Radionuclide Internal Dosimetry, Dental Imaging, Particle Therapy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the committee has helped drive and direct science, professional matters and education in these fields. The committee also helps form and manage working groups who work within the European community and beyond to create specific outputs which help medical physicists in the field - outputs such as curricula and best practice guidelines. Wherever possible, to harmonise approaches worldwide, much of this work is done in collaboration with international partners such as AAPM, ESTRO, EANM, ESR and the IAEA. Moving forward, the scientific committee will continue to support medical physicists in their work on innovation and new technologies, improvements to patient safety and helping make patient focussed medical physics practice the best that it can be.