Re[2]: Is Health Physics Really A Profession?

[roseb@smtp-gw.gdls.com (Boyd H Rose)]

     In reply to Vincent King's point:
     
          (3) Allowing employers to get away with conferring the job 
          title "health physicist" on any available warm body for 
          expediency does NOT help health physics to be viewed as a 
          profession.  I am open to suggestions on how we stop that.
     
     In the U.S., the health physics profession can stop the above by 
     getting title protection enacted at the federal and state level.  
     Examples of this type of title protection are numerous in medicine, 
     engineering, safety, industrial hygiene, and other professions.  
     The AIHA provides information on their continuous title protection 
     efforts at http://www.aiha.org/govt.html under their "State 
     Activity on Professional Recognition/Title Protection" links.
     
     Title protection is certainly an effort worthy of pursuit by the 
     HPS, AAHP, and NRRPT.
     
     Henry
     
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