As every year, most of the local medical physics societies in the Middle East region celebrate the IDMP on 7 November. This year and due to the unfortunate situation of COVID-19 pandemic and the legal precautions in most of the countries around the world, some of the countries celebrate the international day of medical physics virtually or by emails only.
IOMP posted the MEFOMP IDMP celebrations in their website as federation and as individual local societies such as QaMPAS for Qatar and KAMP for Kuwait, whom describe and importance the role of the medical physicist at the hospitals in different sections.
The IOMP website also posted that the Middle East Federation of Organization of Medical Physics (MEFOMP) ExCOM organized the 1st webinar for the celebration of International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) under the title of “Medical Physicists as Health Professional” which is the theme of International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP) for International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) 2020. The main speakers were Dr. Huda AlNaemi (MEFOMP President) and Dr. Henry Fieldings as International speaker.