AAHP Blogs

Charles “Gus” Potter’s story begins not with a grand plan but with gentle encouragement from his uncle, a professor at a small […]

The Certified Health Physicist (CHP) exam is widely regarded as one of the most challenging professional certifications in the field of health […]

Glenn Sturchio knows the prevailing myth: the CHP exam grading process is rigged and unfair, designed to magnify every flaw, nitpick mistakes […]

Mike Lewandowski, the president-elect of the Health Physics Society (HPS), often shares a story that perfectly illustrates the real-world power of CHP […]

There are several reasons why Charles Wilson, an interim program director and assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, wanted […]

Rachel Nichols, a Certified Health Physicist (CHP) and an associate radiation safety officer at the University of Missouri, says the most influential […]

What do St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia and HBO, the premium cable and streaming network, […]

Should nuclear war break out, what should you do first? That was the question proposed by VICE magazine in an editorial on […]

If you work at an industrial, medical or academic institution—or a business that uses radioactive material or radiation-producing equipment—you have two options […]

Join Ian Lake, an associate medical physicist, as he reveals his experience navigating the five key steps to becoming a CHP.