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Master in Medical Physics Program
The School of Arts and Sciences is establishing a new professional degree, the Master of Medical Physics (MMP). The purpose of the MMP degree is to meet the academic and career interests of a class of technically prepared college graduates who seek to combine their interests in graduate physics with career opportunities in the medical research and clinical environments. Medical research and clinical treatments at Penn and other top medical schools and hospitals utilize and concurrently develop advanced technology. The field of medicine now requires a supply of highly educated and well-trained problem solvers to aid in research, help develop new technologies and maintain existing high technology clinical equipment. The MMP program will aim to provide the graduate students with a rigorous graduate physics training in essential graduate physics courses, balancing classroom and laboratory experience, as well as more traditional coursework in medicine and biology. The traditional problem solving techniques emphasized in physics graduate training will enable students to address a wide variety of problems encountered in modern medicine and to evolve as the field of medicine continues to change at a rapid pace. In conjunction with the Departments of Radiology and Radiation Oncology in the School of Medicine, the MMP program will aim to train students in the essentials needed for a physicist to function in a medical environment comprising physicians and scientists. The program will introduce students to research and bring them into contact with state-of-the-art medical technologies. One aspect of this degree will be the opportunity for select students, to work for up to two years after graduation in the University of Pennsylvania Health Systems, thereby preparing them for certification by the American Board of Radiology.For more information on the Master in Medical Physics, please visit http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/graduate/mmp.html
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