EDLL 2005 - Health Physics Exam Review

This 16-week class lets you study at times and places convenient to you! The class is streamed over the Internet and can be viewed at your convenience. Students interact by email. Each student is assigned an individual mentor to track progress.

Why should you take this course? Because it will:

• Benefit any health physicist eligible to take part 1 or 2 of the CHP exam who wants a structured review of the relevant topics.
• Help you identify your weaknesses and provide guidance on what to study.
• Refresh your memory on each topic and present example questions and answers like those on the exam.
• Provide strategies for test taking, explore thumb rules, and provides multiple strategies for solving problems.
• Give you information on what to study and identify areas where you need to concentrate.

Although you cannot pass the CHP exam with this class alone, it gives you the tools to set up a regular, focused study program leading to success! The American Board of Health Physics (ABHP) has approved this class for 32 continuing education credits, and the American Academy of Health Physics has given it approval #2007-00-035 as providing 32 hours of continuing education credit.

Profits from the class support the CSU Student Chapter of the Health Physics Society.

Students say:

"Just wanted to drop a line that according to the ABHP website I did pass the CHP Part 2 exam. Thanks again for the encouragement and for the availability of the review course you offered. I will recommend it to anybody else who is interested in trying to become certified."
Mike Roberson
Senior Health Physicist, Division of Radiation Safety

"Thank you for your help with studying for the CHP exam. I took part in your review class last year and found the class to be the best exam preparation guide and overall review of Health Physics available. I liked it so much; I recently bought the newest edition of Introduction to Health Physics because it has your name on it. Keep up the great work."
Gordon Tannahill
CHP, 2008

"If I had attempted this exam without the knowledge Tom and his students gave me in the class, there would have been no way I could have passed. The field is so comprehensive and the knowledge base so deep that this long intensive class, I feel, is the only way one could possibly study with any hope of passing. To further comment on Dr. Johnson’s work, I used the Datachem CHP Prep CD learning system to study for my part I ABHP exam, Dr. Johnson was a collaborator on this project as well. So, in a sense he is in part responsible for me passing the part I and part II of the ABHP exam. I sincerely hope that your University realizes what an asset it has acquired in Dr. Johnson. Please let me know if there is anything I can do in assisting this program to continue.
James P. Nunn, MS, CHP
Radiation Safety Officer - Medical Physicist
HCA Pulaski Community Hospital

"Dr. Johnson, thank you for providing us with such a great class and online structure. The information was very useful not just for the CHP exam but for improvement of knowledge as well in the work environment. There are so many great aspects about this course, but the best in my opinion, is how the material was presented in a condensed and organized weekly basis with emphasis on what was considered highly important and what was considered just additional information so that a student's study time was maximized."

Courses which relate directly to this one:

EDLL 2004, NRRPT Exam Review (a noncredit course)
EDLL 2006 - Non-Ionizing Radiation Safety (a noncredit course)

ERHS 515, Non-Ionizing Radiation Safety (an academic credit course)

Colorado State University is transitioning from RamCT (WebCT platform) to RamCT Blackboard. This course is part of the RamCT Blackboard Pilot project being conducted in Spring 2012. Read more about the pilot project »

Noncredit courses do not produce academic credit nor appear on a Colorado State University academic transcript.

Important Information

Student questions will be answered and online support for this course will continue until the CHP exam is administered in July. This class will require a significant time commitment. For late registration contact the instructor.

Textbooks and Materials

Required

• Basic Health Physics: Problems and Solutions
  Joseph John Bevelacqua
  ISBN: 0471297119
  Not available at the CSU Bookstore
• Introduction to Health Physics, 4th Ed. (2008)
  Herman Cember
  ISBN: 0071423087
  Not available at the CSU Bookstore

Students are asked to order their texts from Amazon.com or other online vendor.

Instructors

Thomas Johnson
(970) 491-0563
Thomas.E.Johnson@ColoState.EDU

Learn more at: http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/erhs/faculty/johnson/t_johnson.htm