Białystok University will start a new course: medical physics

Physicists from Białystok University are the first in North- Eastern Poland to train students in a new course: medical physics. They will be assisted by doctors from the Białystok Cancer Center (BCO). The Dean of Białystok University's Physics department, Dr. Eugeniusz Żukowski, informed that the new course will be inaugurated in the academic year 2009/2010.

Graduates of this course will be able to operate instruments used in medical diagnostics such as: electrocardiographs and computer computer tomographs. The university will train 30 students on the first year of B.A. studies. If there will be interest in this new course, the university declared that it will start an M.A. course.

Żukowski points out that this course links physics with developed chemistry, biology and medical subjects. The medical subjects will be taught by experts from the BCO. According to Żukowski this proposition meets the needs and demands of the public healthcare and employment market, especially when healthcare units use more and more specialist instruments.

Żukowski also said, that another reason to start the new course is the fact that traditional physics isn't popular amongst high school graduates.

Students, during their studies, will have an internship in BCO, and some of them can find employment in BCO when they graduate. Żukowski points out, that only passing a state exam gives the full right to be a practicing medical physicist.

There are similar courses in: Szczecin, Poznań, Wrocław and Łódź. Medical physics as a separate degree is taught at universities in: Warsaw, Kraków and Katowice. PAP - Science and Scholarship in Poland


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