Re: '96 AAHP Exam Results

[rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu (Ron L. Kathren)]

To as many of those 134 successful candidates to whom these greetings come:

Heartiest congratulations.  I hope you will all choose to be active and
participating members of the American Academy of Health Physics.  May your
accomplishment be an inspiration to others in our profession and guide them
to successfully sitting for the rigorous ABHP exam as you all have done.

Ron Kathren
President-Elect Designate
American Academy of Health Physics

>     
>     At its Fall meeting on November 22-23, the American Board of Health 
>     Physics carefully considered the issue of posting the names of 
>     successful candidates on the AAHP web site.  In the interest of 
>     protecting the privacy of individual candidates, the Board decided 
>     that each candidate should receive the official written notification 
>     of his or her results before they were posted on the web. As a result, 
>     the examination results will not be posted electronically until the 
>     week of December 16.  
>     
>     The following information concerning examination results is not 
>     considered sensitive and is being made available at this time:
>     
>     Part 1 --102 of 270 passed
>     Part 2 --136 of 230 passed
>     
>     As a result of the 1996 examination, 134 individuals may be added to 
>     the roster of active Certified Health Physicists.  The passing rates 
>     for Parts 1 and 2 are within the range of historical results for both 
>     examinations.
>     
>     Further information will be made available through the AAHP web site 
>     and the CHP Corner published in the Health Physics Society Newsletter.
>     The AAHP web address is:  http://phantom.ehs.uiuc.edu/~aahp/
>     
>     George J. Vargo, Ph.D., CHP        E. Scott Medling, CHP
>     Secretary, ABHP                    Webmaster, AAHP
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