The current CAMPEP graduate program didactic course guidelines have insufficiently rigorous requirements for research training

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Arguing for the proposition is Jeffrey F. Williamson, Ph.D. Dr. Williamson received his Ph.D. in Biophysical Sciences/Medical Physics at the University of Minnesota in 1982 after 2 years of graduate studies in history and philosophy of science. During his 44 yr career, he has served as a dosimetrist, clinical physicist, research scientist, teacher, and administrator, all in university‐based radiation oncology. He is currently Professor of Radiation Oncology at Washington University and Editor‐in‐Chief of Medical Physics. He has published 270 peer‐reviewed papers, proceedings, and book chapters and has served as Principal Investigator of 11 funded NIH R01 grants and 1 Program Project Grant (P01). His research interests include computational and experimental brachytherapy dosimetry, model‐based dose calculation, image‐guided and adaptive radiation therapy, CT image reconstruction and quantitative multispectral imaging, and deformable image registration and dose reconstruction. As Chair of Medical Physics at Virginia Commonwealth University, he founded its CAMPEP‐accredited radiation‐oncology physics residency and Medical Physics M.S. and Ph.D. programs.