Re: Associate Membership in AAHP was Re: Certification

["joseph guido" <joseph_guido@pc.radian.com>]

        here's my two cents ...
        
        I disagree with the statement that something is needed "between" the 
        RRPT and CHP.  I see the two certifications as distinct "endpoints" to 
        two different career paths.  While it is true that a person who has: 1) 
        worked as a technician, 2) achieved certification by the NRRPT 3) taken 
        adequate college coursework, and 4) demonstrated the required 
        professional level work experience can become a certified health 
        physicist.  (I should know since I am certified by the NRRPT, have a 
        masters degree in health physics, have passed part I of the ABHP, and 
        will eventually seek full certification).  I do not think that one 
        predisposes a person to be the other.  More importantly, being a 
        certified health physicist (or on the track to becoming one) does not 
        necessarily qualify one as a health physics technician (as the described 
        lineage suggests)
        
        
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