Division of Medical Physics
M.Sc Medical Physics
Medical Physicists or Radiation Physicists ensures safe and effective delivery of radiation in the treatment or diagnosis of the patient, as per prescribed by the specialized physician.
Medical physicists protect the patient from over or under exposure to radiation make sure that the equipments are running properly and is being utilized properly and help with the positioning of the patient for the best result.
Duties of the Medical Physicists or Radiation Physicists are generally divided into two disciplines: Radiation Oncology and Diagnostic radiology.
Radiation Oncology Physicists duties are generally divided in three groups: Beam Measurements and Quality Assurance (QA) : Beam measurements and QA includes calibrating the radiation therapy instruments and ensuring the equipment functions correctly and safety. They ensure that the correct dose to be delivered to the patients and the equipments can be operated safely by the authorised personnel. Then, they also deal with developing new treatment modalities.
Treatment Planning: Treatment planning means calculating the treatment time for proscribed dose and dose distribution in the patient body using treatment planning systems (TPS).
Patient Positioning: Patient positioning is to prepare the patient for treatment using systems and methods that will allow for patient comfort, stability and reproducibility. The patient positioning systems are used to bring the patient into the treatment position, verify that the patient is in thetreatment position and ensures that the patient remains immovable position during treatment.
Diagnostic Radiology physicists are handling Quality Assurance (QA) of all diagnostic devices used in the radiology departments, like CT, MRI, X-Ray Imaging systems
Salient features of the Program:
It is two-year Master Program. one-year Internship after BSc Physics as one subject, after completion of the internship students can appear the Radiological Safety Officer exam conducted by RPAD, BARC Mumbai in India.
It is important to posses’ good understanding of radiation physics, including the principles of all kinds of radiation used in the Medical field.
Good interpersonal skill are highly important, as medical physicists need to interact with a large team of radiation Oncologists, therapists, nurses & dosimetrists, in addition to interacting with downhearted patients.
The greater side of this job is that you provide for hope for someone to receive cure for cancer.
The darker side of this role is that you work with very sick people that often may not have good prognoses or any significant life expectancy. It is certainly going to be challenging to provide hope to one who has last hope. Any single mistake by medical physicist can certainly impact many patients lives, so its an emotionally tough job.
M.Sc. Medical Physics Course is Approved by Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)
Eligibility:BSc with Physics as one of the subjects with Minimum 60%.
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