Radiation Safety For Healthcare Professionals
Published 3/2026
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 1h 7m | Size: 787.41 MB
What you'll learn
Understand fundamental radiation physics and radiation types
Distinguish deterministic and stochastic biological effects
Apply the ALARA principle in daily clinical practice
Correctly use and interpret personal dosimetry results
Implement protection strategies for patients and staff
Identify radiation safety responsibilities by department
Requirements
No prior knowledge of radiation physics or medical physics is required. This course is designed to take you from the very beginning, and all technical concepts are explained in plain, clinical language that any healthcare professional can follow. That said, you will get the most out of this course if you are currently working in or studying towards a healthcare profession, such as radiography, nursing, medicine, nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, or a related allied health field. A general familiarity with how hospitals work and how patients move through a clinical environment will help you connect the content to your own practice. You should also be comfortable reading and listening to English at a professional level, as all course materials are delivered in English. On the technical side, there is nothing to worry about. You do not need any prior knowledge of physics, mathematics, or radiation science, every concept is built up from scratch. You do not need to have worked in a radiology or radiotherapy department before taking this course. And you do not need any special software, equipment, or tools. All you need is a device to watch the lectures. This course is especially well suited to student radiographers and medical imaging students who are beginning or preparing for clinical placement, and to nurses, midwives, and ward staff who regularly receive patients from nuclear medicine or radiology and want to understand what they are dealing with. Junior doctors who refer patients for imaging and want to make more informed, confident decisions about radiation risk will find it equally valuable, as will medical students completing their radiology rotation. Healthcare assistants and porters who work in or near radiation departments are warmly welcome, this course was written with you in mind too. Finally, international healthcare professionals seeking radiation safety knowledge grounded in globally recognised frameworks from the ICRP, IAEA, and WHO will find this course directly applicable to their practice, regardless of which country they work in.
Description
Radiation is used in hospitals every day, for diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring. But are you truly confident you understand it?
This course gives every healthcare professional a complete, clinically grounded foundation in radiation safety from the fundamental physics of ionizing radiation, through its biological effects on the human body, to the practical strategies that protect both patients and the people who care for them.
Taught by a Medical Physicist with extensive clinical experience across nuclear medicine, and radiotherapy, this course is built on internationally recognised guidelines from the ICRP, AAPM and IAEA.
What makes this course different?
Most radiation safety training is either too technical for clinical staff or too superficial to be genuinely useful. This course sits exactly in the middle, scientifically rigorous, clinically relevant, and explained in plain language with real hospital examples throughout.
What you will learn across 9 modules
Module 1 - Introduction to Radiation in Medicine
What radiation is, where it comes from, and why medical radiation is the largest artificial source of exposure worldwide. You will understand the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and why that distinction matters clinically.
Module 2 - Basic Radiation Physics
The four types of ionizing radiation: alpha, beta, gamma, and X-rays, their properties, penetrating power, and clinical applications. The three interaction processes: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, and pair production and why Compton scatter is the main occupational hazard in fluoroscopy suites. The radiation units every clinical professional must understand: Becquerel, Gray, and Sievert.
Module 3 - Biological Effects of Radiation
How radiation damages DNA through direct and indirect mechanisms. The critical distinction between deterministic effects those with a dose threshold, including skin burns, cataracts, and bone marrow suppression and stochastic effects, cancer and heritable mutations which have no safe threshold. The Linear No-Threshold model and what it means for patient communication.
Module 4 - Principles of Radiation Protection
The ALARA principle in clinical practice. Time, Distance, and Shielding, explained with practical fluoroscopy and nuclear medicine examples. The full ICRP dose limit framework for occupational workers, members of the public, and pregnant workers.
Module 5 - Radiation Area Classification
The complete legal and practical framework for Controlled Areas, Supervised Areas, and Unclassified Areas. Dose rate criteria. The legal basis across six international jurisdictions. Physical demarcation methods, structural shielding, interlocks, floor markings, and signage.
Module 6 - Radiation Protection for Healthcare Workers
Personal dosimetry in depth: TLD, OSL, and electronic personal dosimeters, how to wear them correctly, and what to do when a reading is unexpectedly high. Personal protective equipment: lead aprons, thyroid collars, lead glasses, and mobile shields with clinical specifications and the common mistakes that reduce their effectiveness.
Module 7 - Patient Radiation Safety
Justification at all three ICRP levels. Optimisation techniques including automatic exposure control, iterative CT reconstruction, and fluoroscopy frame rate reduction. Diagnostic Reference Levels explained. A practical reference table of typical effective doses for 12 common examinations from chest X-ray to PET-CT, the numbers you need for informed patient conversations.
Module 8 - Radiation Safety by Department
Department-specific guidance for diagnostic radiology and fluoroscopy (last image hold, DAP recording, frame rate selection), nuclear medicine (contamination control, radiopharmaceutical handling, patient discharge criteria), and radiotherapy (vault interlocks, patient verification chains, AAPM TG-142 quality assurance).
Module 9 - Radiation Safety Culture
What a genuine safety culture looks like, leadership commitment, incident reporting, quality assurance, training, and regulatory compliance. The role of the Medical Physicist and Radiation Protection Officer and how to use them effectively as your safety partners.
Who this course is for
This course is for any healthcare professional who works in, near, or alongside a radiation environment - and wants to understand radiation safety properly, not just tick a compliance box.
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