Graduate Academic Certificate in Medical Health Physics & Internal Dosimetry

Overview

The Nuclear Safety and Technology Micro-credentials provide the fundamental knowledge required for careers in the nuclear industry. The Graduate Academic Certificate in Medical Health Physics & Internal Dosimetry is one of three graduate certificates in the Micro-credential suite and is designed to give the foundational knowledge of the use and safety of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation commonly used in vivo in medicine. This graduate-level micro-credential provides learners with the knowledge to work as Radiation Safety Officers in clinical settings.

Admission Requirements

Entrance requirements are set at the same standard as any graduate program in the Department of Physics & Astronomy:

• Honours B.Sc. degree in Physics or Engineering Physics with at least a B+ average in the final year. Applicants with an Honours B.Sc. in other science disciplines will be considered for admission if they have received a good grounding in physics
• Since instruction is in English, international students whose first language is not English must take either the TOEFL (iBT) and achieve a score of at least 92 (580 on the written version or 237 on the computer version), or the IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 (no less than 5.5 in each section). Students may be exempted from the language test requirement if they completed a degree where the official language of instruction and evaluation was English.

Course Requirements

• MED PHYS 771 / Isotopes In-Vivo
• MED PHYS 772 / Medical Health Physics