[1] The college was formed from the earlier Australian Regional Group of the Hospital Physicists Association (UK), Biophysics Group of the Australian Institute of Physics and New Zealand Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Association.
The ACPSEM facilitates training and professional accreditation for practising medical physicists in Australia and New Zealand.
The ACPSEM also promotes education and research into the biomedical applications of physics, mathematics, engineering and computing.
The ACPSEM publishes position papers[2] and topical debates developed with the aim of providing opinions and evidence-based, best-practice guidelines regarding topics and emerging issues relevant to ACPSEM and based on a critical analysis of current facts, data and research.
The ACPSEM has an official scientific journal, Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine, which is published 4 times a year.