We are involved with pretty much every step of the process that happens before your treatment, so everything from calibrating the CT scanner, looking after the planning systems that the computers use to generate the treatment plans, and making sure that the linear accelerators that actually deliver the treatment are all very safe and accurate. Nick: The most satisfying aspect of my work as a medical physicist would be the fact that I get to work with a multidisciplinary team of radiation therapists, radiation oncologists, and also different scientists. Nick: A good physicist is primarily a good scientist, they must be heavily involved and enjoy the scientific method and that's both theoretical and practical. Catherine: It's my personality to be quite calm and composed, and you obviously need to be good with numbers and physics, but you also it's really the most important thing I think is being able to see the clinical significance of those numbers and those techniques that we use. Catherine: Radiation oncology medical physics is a great career to work in if you're interested in having a family as well.
On the other hand, efficiency is all about ensuring there is rational use of resources, which in economics are scarce. Efficiency is also about ensuring profits/outputs are maximized from minimal inputs. Sue argues that if one just concentrates on efficiency then customers won't be satisfied and they may not return to the company to procure the service(s) may imply that efficiency just focuses on doing things in the right manner. That is, as prescribed in the organizational policies and guidelines. Thus, in CBW, activities like receiving customers and their dogs, attending to the dogs, and attending to customers may require effectiveness. However, activities like distributing items, materials and food for the dog, reducing wastage, and receiving payments for services may require efficiency. This is because activities that focus on efficiency tend to reduce use of organizational resources while ensuring returns are maximized. Conversely, activities that focus on effectiveness tend to ensure optimal performance and customer satisfaction Managerial roles can be attributed to Sue Ryan (franchise owner) and Candace (general manager) Making reference to Mintber's management roles, the roles that would be most applicable to the franchise owner (Sue Ryan) include Figurehead, leadership, disseminator, spokesperson, and entrepreneur roles while those attributed to the general manager (Candice Sladlace) include monitor, disturbance handler, and resource allocator.