E33: Mapping Radiation: Inside Brazilian Dosimetry with Adriana Santos

Um, any questions for us? [laughs] Getting to know each other.

[laughs] Um, I think, uh, that for us, um, has a, a, a, a lot of, uh, materials from the West is very important.

And for example, for us, uh, WND is very important because everything is looking, uh, looking for, uh, improve the profession.

And I have a question for you guys.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, how, how do you see, uh, the dosimetrist profession in the future?

Yeah, that's-

It's always evolving.

[laughs]

That's, that's, that's a great one.

I think, you know, you've been in the field a fairly long time so has Jeff and myself.

I think we have seen so much dosimetric profession evolving into a lot more than what, where we started.

And I, I think, you know, my take on this, personal take is that, you know, as we get into an age of automation, AI, we may not be doing a plan by hand A to Z like contouring or, or plan- even planning.

There are, there are softwares now.

I think we become more of a quality assurance checklist kind of a people job, meaning, uh, hey, we might have few plans for us to pick.

That's where I think the human aspect comes into play.

You know, we could think and our thought process has to be utilized in that sense.

Uh, so that's my personal take.

You know, a lot of the stuff that we do manually might get transitioned into an automation, age of automation, but I think our role is still very crucial and vital in terms of clinical perspective.

Um, we will, you know, as I said, we, we, we...

Our role I think will evolve into making sure that we treat the patients with the best treatment in a safe manner.

I couldn't agree with Jivin more.

It's just a valuation of things and a lot of new technology coming on our plate, so it's, it's best that, uh, we do it safely, um, 'cause the expectation is to, to have a faster turnaround time.

Um, so our jobs is evaluating, not being reliant on, you know, say AI, is, is very important in our field.

All right.