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interface with various members of the treatment team, the treatment planning, and the interface with the physics staff.
Prerequisites: Medical Physics 220 and 322 (or Medical Physics 322 concurrently). Instructor: Kirkpatrick. 1 unit.
328. Clinical Practicum and Shadowing (RT). The course gives hands on experience in practical aspects of medical
physics as applied to radiation therapy. Special emphasis is given to the operation of various therapy units and dose
measuring devices, techniques of measuring the characteristics of radiation beams, commissioning and quality
assurance checks for radiation producing devices in the clinic. The course includes shadowing a clinician, technologist,
or physicist, while performing their routine clinical tasks. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Wang. 3 units.
329. Medical Physics Clinical Internship. The course offers an internship opportunity to students who wish to gain a
more hands-on, practical experience in clincial aspects of the paractice of medical physics. The intership will be
conducted in a clincial facility under the supervision of a clincial a medical physicist. Instructor: Yin. 10 units.
331. Advanced Medical Imaging Physics. The course includes advanced topics in diagnostic imaging including linear
system theory, image quality metrology, digital radiography and mammography, new advances on three-dimensional
imaging modalities, MRI, CT, ultrasound, and evaluation of diagnostic imaging methods. Prerequisite: MP 230.
Consent of instructor required. Instructor: MacFall. 3 units.
332. Molecular Imaging. The course covers topics related to imaging molecular processes in small animal and human
applications. Instructor: Mukundan. 1 unit.
338. Radiology in Practice. 3 units. C-L: see Biomedical Engineering 334
342. Radionuclide and Radiotracer Production. Production of radionuclides for imaging and therapy. Cyclotron and
target principles, operation, and maintenance. Reactor-produced radionuclides. Radiochemistry. Production of PET
tracers. Tracer kinetic modeling. Quantitating physiological parameters. Instructor: Ganesan Vaidyanathan. 3 units.
348. Clinical Practicum and Shadowing (NM). The course gives hand on experience in clinical nuclear medicine.
Students will work with gamma cameras, PET systems, surgical probes, does calibrators, technetium generators, well
counters to learn operation principles, calibration, and quality control methods. Students will spend time in the PET
facility, nuclear cardiology, nuclear medicine, and the radiopharmacy. The course includes shadowing a clinician,
technologist, or physicist, while performing their routine clinical tasks. Consent of instructor required. Instrcutor:
Turkington. 3 units.
359. Independent Study in Medical Physics. An independent research project with faculty advisor. Consent of instructor
required. Instructor: Staff. Variable credit.
360. Public Speaking for Medical Physics. An overview of effective communication techniques for scientists and
engineers. Course will focus on speech and delivery, structure of effective presentations, and proper use of visual aids.
Students will be required to actively participate in exercises on extemporaneous speaking, formal research
presentations, and question and answer sessions. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 1 unit.
361. Biostatistics for Medical Physics. The first part will introduce the basic principles of descriptive statistics, probability
theory, estimation theory, correlation and regression, with applications in the biomedical field. This is a 4 week
session. The second part covers inferential biostatistics. It will introduce statistical hypothesis testing and its application
to group comparisons of biomedical data. This part will cover parametric and non-parametric statistical tests and the
basics of ANOVA analysis. This is a 4-week session. The third part covers medical decision analysis. This section
includes the study and application of decision analysis methods popular in medical decision making. This part will cover
performance evaluation measures of medical diagnostic tests, strategies for combining diagnostic tests, receiver
operating characteristics analysis and its variants, and cost-effectiveness analysis. This is a 5-week session. 1 course
credit each session. Repeatable for 3 total credits. Instructors: Georgia Tourassi, Anuj Kapadia. 1 unit.
370. Frontiers of Biomedical Science. A course covering the frontier topics of biomedical science that are currently not
within the domain of medical physics, but a medical physicists, nonetheless, need to have knowledge of. Topics include
genomics, bioinformatics, proteomics, and others. Instructor: Wong. 3 units.
Medical Scientist Training Program
Christopher D. Kontos, MD, Director
The Medical Scientist Training Program, conducted under the auspices of the Graduate School and the School of
Medicine, is designed for students with strong backgrounds in science who are interested in careers in the medical
sciences and academic medicine. The program combines graduate education in the sciences basic to medicine with the
clinical curriculum of the School of Medicine. It typically requires seven to eight years of study and leads to both the
MD and PhD degrees. The combination of basic science and clinical training affords a remarkable range of career
opportunities for program graduates, who generally follow one of two broad paths: Some pursue careers in teaching
and research in one of the basic medical sciences; others enter residency programs and then go on to investigative and
teaching careers in clinical medicine. Most graduates pursue some combination of research and clinical work.
Eligibility. Applicants must meet the admission requirements of both the Graduate School as candidates for the
PhD degree and the School of Medicine as candidates for the MD degree. Most candidates apply for admission to the
first year of the program, but a few students are admitted each year after completing the second or third year of Duke
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