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- What are Medical Physicists?
Medical Physics is the application of physics principles to medicine and healthcare. Medical physicists work in both hospitals and universities, in the following healthcare specialties: radiology (medical imaging), nuclear medicine, radiation protection, and radiation oncology. Without Medical Physics, there would be no stethoscopes, X-Rays, MRI scanners, particle accelerators, or computer-assisted tomography.
- What are Biomedical Engineers?
Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineering principles to biology and health care. Bioengineers work alongside clinicians, therapists and researchers to develop systems, equipment and devices in order to diagnose and treat illnesses. Biomedical engineers are responsible for such life-saving and life-enhancing technologies as prosthetics, dentures, artificial hearts, dialysis machines, robotic and laser eye surgery, pacemakers, and wearable technology.
Where do our graduates work?
Research and academia
There are numerous careers within research and academia that you can pursue as one of our graduates. Careers in this field typically require a PhD. Our department currently has around 80 PhD students, involved in many different areas of research.
A doctoral degree often leads to a career in academia (initially as a postgraduate researcher and then a university lecturer), but is also recognised as a valuable step towards careers in the NHS or in industry.
Clinical science and the NHS
Thousands of medical physicists and biomedical engineers work in the NHS, doing a wide range of jobs all aimed at using physics and engineering to diagnose, treat and manage illness. The range of tasks is broad, but often include developing new techniques for imaging and radiotherapy, ensuring medical equipment is working optimally, and research and development.
Some of the hospitals our graduates have gone onto work for include:
- University College London Hospital
- Royal Free Hospital
- Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Great Ormond Street Hospital
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
- Eastman Dental Hospital
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Veterinary College
Industry
Our graduates have found employment in a broad range of medical physics and biomedical engineering related industries, as well as employers outside of the sector. It is possible to start such careers at any level, after successfully completing a BSc/BEng, MSci/MEng, MSc/MRes, or PhD.
Some of the organisations our graduates have gone onto work for include:
- Beijiing Aerospace Changfeng Co Ltd
- Gowerlabs
- Echopoint Medial Ltd
- Leo Cancer Care Ltd
- KMPG
- Medtronic
- FINBOURNE
- Brain Miner Ltd
- Philips gmbH Innovative Technology Hamburg
- Intuitive Surgery
- Inria (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics)
- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
- Vision RT