The Department of Radiological Physics, SMS Medical College & Hospitals Jaipur, India celebrated the International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) 2020 on the theme, “Medical Physicist as Health Professional” by organizing a virtual symposium to commemorate the birthday of great physicists and Nobel laureates Madame Marie Curie and Bharat Ratna Sir C V Raman on 7th November 2020. The 125th anniversary of the discovery of X-rays and the 175th birth year of Prof W C Roentgen was celebrated by the virtual symposium on 8th November 2020. The scientific programme included several lectures on the role of medical physicists as healthcare professionals in the use of radiation in medicine by eminent speakers across the globe. Medical Physicists play a fundamental role in the development and application of medical radiation technologies and ensure the quality and safety of imaging and treatment procedures. This year’s IDMP celebrations gave us the opportunity to understand and tackle the concerns of medical physicists as healthcare professionals. The virtual symposia organized by the department of Radiological Physics, SMS Medical College and Hospitals, Jaipur was an effort to make the medical physicists ready to meet the professional challenges of modern healthcare systems and now we could confidently say that this was a morale booster for all those medical physicists facing professional challenges of diverse multi dimensions. Medical physicists from different parts of the world had participated in these virtual symposia and showed their solidarity with peers.
