Degrees  >  Master of Science in Medical Physics (MSMP)

The Master of Science in Medical Physics (M.S.M.P.) degree program is intended to prepare students for productive careers as medical physicists. The program is designed to be completed in one and one-half years by well-motivated, full-time students. The M.S.M.P. has the following course credit-hour requirements:

	With Thesis	Without Thesis
Required Medical Physics Courses	21	21
Elective Medical Physics Courses	0	6
Clinical Rotation (400 hours)	3	3
Thesis	9	0
Total for Degree	30	30

The required courses for this degree are:

• MP 4750 Diagnostic Imaging Physics
• MP 6101 Nuclear Medicine Physics
• MP 6201 Radiation Therapy Physics
• MP 6405 Radiation Protection and Dosimetry
• MP 6407 Radiation Biology and Oncology
• MP 6756 Radiation Physics
• MP 6757 Radiation Detection

Some suggested elective courses for this degree are:

• MP 880X Special Topics in Medical Physics
• MP 890X Special Problems in Medical Physics
• BIOL 4015 Cancer Biology and Biotechnology
• ECE/BMED 6780 Medical Imaging Processing
• ECE/BMED 6786 Medical Imaging Systems
• ECE/BMED 6793 Systems Pathophysiology
• NRE 4404 Radiological Assessment and Waste Management
• NRE/ME 6758 Numerical Methods
• NRE 6101 Transport Fundamentals
• NRE 6103 Computational Methods of Radiation Transport
• NRE 6755 Radiological Assessment and Waste Management
• ISYE 6411 Fundamentals of Statistics with Applications
• ISYE 6644 Simulation
• ISYE 6661 Optimization I
• ISYE 6401 Statistical Modeling and Design of Experiments
• ISYE 6739 Basic Statistical Methods
• PUBP 6010 Ethics, Epistemology, and Public Policy
• PUBP 6310 Environmental Issues
• PUBP 6314 Policy Tools for Environmental Management
• PUBP 6324 Environmental and Technological Risk Management
• PUBP 6401 Science Technology and Public Policy

Clinical Rotation

On-campus students will work with clinical medical physicists at Emory University's hospital and clinic or at the Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. The internship in each area is considered a separate course. The clinical rotation requires four-hundred contact hours distributed in three areas:

• MP 8101 Nuclear Medicine (100 hours)
• MP 8102 Diagnostic Imaging (100 hours)
• MP 8103 Radiation Therapy (200 hours)

Distance-Learning (DL) students are required to fulfill the clinical rotations and laboratories at their own (or nearby) facilities. In this case, the DL student must first submit the necessary information for approval to the course coordinator before admittance into the program.

Any course in which you receive a grade of D or F, or any course taken on a nonletter grade basis (except the thesis, transfer credit, or advanced standing) does not meet these course requirements. All courses must be at the 4000 level and above. No more than six semester hours at the 4000 level can be counted toward the degree requirements.

Sample Curriculum (Nonthesis Option) for On-Campus Students

^a Students who have not had an undergraduate course in radiation physics or the equivalent covering the material in NRE 3301 are advised to take that course as a make-up prior to NRE/MP6756. NRE 3301 cannot be counted towards the credit hour requirement.

^b Biology 3751 (3 credit hours) is a prerequisite for MP 6405 which can be taken concurrently with Mp 6405 if needed.

^c Prerequisities: MP 6756, MP 603, MP 6407, MP 4750 and MP 6101 & MP 6201, MP 6757

Sample Two and a Half Year Course Curriculum (Nonthesis Option) for Distance-Learning Students

^a NRE 3301 is a prerequisite for MP 6756. This course is a junior level course with 3 credits hours which is not counted towards the MSMP degree requirement.

^b Biology 3751 (3 credit hours) is a prerequisite for MP 6407 which can be taken concurrently with MP 6405 if needed.

^c Prerequisites: MP 6756 MP 6405, MP 4750 and MP 6101 & MP 6201, MP 6757