Career opportunities for medical physicists

Medicine increasingly is also applied physics. It is impossible to imagine hospitals without highly complex and sophisticated equipment. As specialists, medical physicists are in demand on the job market - the need for experts continues to increase with technical progress. At research centers, accelerator facilities and in medical technology companies, they develop, improve and test procedures and devices.

Diagnosis and treatment both involve physics: accelerators destroy tumors with high-energy radiation while sparing healthy tissue all around. Experts are needed to develop and apply these complex physical devices. Medical physicists are needed. With their knowledge of physics, they help to make medicine better, safer and thus more humane. They bridge the gap between disciplines, but also pave the way between industry and hospitals. Medical physicists not only develop the necessary technologies, but also apply them to patients. In addition to technical expertise, this also requires a sense of responsibility and skill in interaction with people.

Informative lectures on the topic of career choice for medical physicists are available free of charge. Short interviews with graduates of TU Dortmund University who do not work in hospitals can be found in the Wiki Medical Physics. TheYoung Medical Physics Working Group (Arbeitskreis Junge Medizinphysik) also provides detailed information online about opportunities after graduation, training and careers, and provides reports on the experiences of other medical physicists.