Physics with Medical Physics MPhys

On this course, you’ll learn about the physics that keeps us alive – the fluid mechanics behind blood flow, the forces acting on bones and tissues – and the technologies managed by medical physicists in the NHS. In your final year, you’ll complete a work placement to help you prepare for a career as a medical physicist or in research. This might be at a local hospital, working with teams that use techniques such as MRI to diagnose illnesses, or in industry, at a company that’s developing new technologies to identify and treat disease. At the start of your course, you’ll cover the essential physics behind everything else you’ll study: heat, motion, electricity, magnetism and quantum mechanics. You will also start to study the human body as a physical machine, and how electronics can be used to model biological systems. Lectures and lab classes are included in the same modules, so you won’t be learning about abstract topics in isolation. You’ll run experiments using the equipment in our modern laboratories to help you understand how important theories apply to the real world.