MEDICAL PHYSICS
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Master in Medical Physics offers a program inline with the recomendations of the European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics.
Training in:
- radiation physics and detection;
- clinical dosimetry and shielding;
- electronics, and biological signal acquisition systems;
- medical instrumentation;
- signal and image processing methods;
- medical imaging and radiation therapy techniques;
- functional materials;
- applied optics in biomedical sciences.
STRUCTURE
The cycle of studies leading to the Master’s degree in Medical Physics is composed by:
- a Specialization composed by an organized set of course units corresponding to 72 ECTS credits. It confers a Specialization in Medical Physics;
- a scientific Dissertation or Project, original and specifically made for this purpose, corresponding to 48 of the total 120 ECTS credits, whose public defense may award the Master’s degree in Medical Physics.
CURRICULAR PLAN
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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- Holders of a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Physical Engineering, Technological Physics, Applied Physics, Engineering or other scientific areas with a strong background in Physics and Mathematics;
- Holders a foreign higher degree in one of the areas described in the previous paragraph;
- Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that the scientific committee of the course recognizes as sufficient to attest the capacity to carry out this Master;
SELECTION CRITERIA
- Criterion 1: academic curriculum vitae (70%)
- Sub-criterion 1 – Training area and degree (80%)
- Sub-criterion 2 – Published scientific papers (10%)
- Sub-criterion 3 – Merit or other awards (10%)
- Criterion 2: Professional experience (30%)
Candidate tie-breaker criterion:
- Bachelor’s grade
Candidates who do not yet hold a Bachelor’s degree and/or have an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognized as attesting to the ability to carry out this Master by the statutory scientific body, will be serialized according to the criteria and sub-criteria indicated above, but replacing the final grade point average by the weighted average of the curricular units performed.