These courses deal with well-established and emerging areas of medical and health physics including clinical measurement, computing, health physics, instrumentation, medical electronics, medical imaging, physiological monitoring, physics of radiotherapy, radiobiology, and radiological imaging sciences. The coursework also contains an introduction to the clinical sciences.

Graduates can seek employment in hospitals, health departments, tertiary institutions and medical instrumentation companies. Depending on the field of employment, graduates may be known as a medical physicist, health physicist or bio-engineer. Professional medical/health physicists:

• apply electronic tools and medical software, ultrasonics, radiation and computers to clinical and environmental problems
• monitor the environment to maintain acceptable standards in the workplace and the community
• apply fundamental physical research in development programs
• are responsible for calibration, care and maintenance of instruments and apparatus.

Professional recognition

The course is accredited by the Australasian College of Physical Sciences and Engineers in Medicine.

Possible careers

• Health Physicist
• Medical Equipment Sales
• Medical Physicist
• Medical Scientist