Master's Programme in Medical Physics

The programme in medical physics is a five-year-long vocational education that combines your interest in physics with applications in medicine. You will study how radiation is used within health care to diagnose and treat diseases. During the latter part of the programme, you will undergo practical training at a hospital.

A medical physicist is an expert in diagnostic methods and radiation therapy. Modern healthcare is experiencing rapid technological advances, and there is a need for both a detailed knowledge of basic biological effects and in advanced physical models. As a medical physicist, you can also work in radiation protection or in research and development. After completing the 5-year programme, you can apply for a license to work as a medical physicist in a clinical environment, together with medical doctors and other personal. The license is granted by the National Board of Health and Welfare, and it is important to note that obtaining the license requires you to have good working knowledge of Swedish.

One prerequisite for this programme are the Swedish Upper Secondary School course Swedish 3, or equivalent. We refer international students to the international Master's Programme in Medical Radiation Physics.

The programme in Medical Physics is a vocational degree worth 300 credits, which corresponds to 5 years of full-time study. The first two years are common with the Bachelor’s program in Physics, where you will study basic courses in physics and mathematics. These two years are given in Swedish. From the third year, you will undergo more specialised training, which largely takes place in a hospital environment and with the involvement of board-certified medical physicists. Also from the third year the courses are given in English.

The

programme is highly interdisciplinary, spanning many areas such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and medicine.

This poses specific challenges, and requires high quality teaching and close collaboration with experts from different fields. 

More detailed information about the courses is available on the Swedish web.

More detailed information about the courses is available on the Swedish web.

At the end of the programme you will do a degree project of 30 credits at advanced level. These projects are either carried out in a research division, at the hospital or in collaboration with industry.

 

Read our step-by-step guide on how to apply

If you have studied the Swedish Upper Secondary School course Swedish 3, or equivalent, application is done through antagning.se.

To start latter part of the programme, please contact the department.

Additional eligibility criteria






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