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.
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