Department for Medical Physics and Radiation Protection

Department for Medical Physics and Radiation Protection is the organizational unit of the Clinical Hospital Center of Rijeka, whose work is related to the application of physics in medicine, and to quality, responsible and safe use of ionizing radiation in medicine. As an independent organizational unit, on September 1, 2012, the Department for Medical Physics and Radiation Protection was formed. The Department then gathered medical physicists who already worked as part of other CHC Rijeka’s organizational units. Currently, there are 15 medical physicists working at the Department, whose tasks are related to the operation of all CHC Rijeka departments that use ionizing radiation in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

The departments are:
1. Clinic for Tumors
2. Clinical Department for Diagnostic and interventional Radiology
3. Clinical Department for Nuclear Medicine
4. Clinic for Diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels (interventional cardiology)
5. Clinic for Dermatovenerology (dermatoncology)

The Department of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection collaborates with other public health institutions with a goal to establish Quality Assurance programme that is necessary for quality and safe use of ionizing radiation. Collaborating institutions are:
– Community Health Center of Primorsko-goranska County
– Istrian Health Care Center
– Clinic for Infectious Diseases “Dr. Fran Mihaljević “, Zagreb
– General Hospital Karlovac