Degree Requirements

Prerequisites for the program

Successful applicants are expected to hold a bachelor’s degree in Physics or an application thereof such as Engineering. Other degree holders will be considered provided they meet a majority of the following course prerequisites. For all applicants, any deficiencies in the courses listed below must be removed following acceptance to the program.

• 3 courses in Introductory Physics (including mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics)
• 1 Modern Physics Laboratory
• 2 advanced courses in Electricity and Magnetism
• 3 semesters of Calculus
• Anatomy and Physiology

Curriculum

Requirements:

• 40 Credit hours minimum
• 18 credit hours of which must be in Physics at or above the 500-level
  
  

  Course #	Alternate	Course	Instructor
  PHYS-P 576	HSCI 570	Introduction to Medical Diagnostic Imaging	Keith Stantz
  PHYS-P 572	HSCI 572 RAON 604/605	Radiation Oncology Physics	Susan B. Klein
  PHYS-P 526	HSCI 526	Priciples of Health Physics and Dosimetry	Keith Stantz
  PHYS-P 578	G765 HSCI 540	Radiation Biophysics	Susan B. Klein
  PHYS-P 683		Practicum in Medical Physics	Medical Physics Faculty
  STAT-S 501		Introduction to Statistics	IUB Statistics Faculty

  
  
• Research Ethics (select one)
  • GRAD-G 601 Research Ethics: Responsibilities to Society, Science, and Self
  • EDUC-U 550 Doing Research Right: Seminar on the Responsible Conduct and Administration of Research
  • CITI University of Miami Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (online; S/F basis)
  • T521 (Biotechnology) Research Design and Ethics
• Completion and acceptance of a Thesis based on independent Research
  or successful completion of a Comprehensive Examination

  Research Mentors may be selected from an extensive list of participating faculty affiliated with world renowned institutions. *

  • IUB Physics
  • IUB Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • IUB Medical Sciences Program
  • Purdue University School of Health Sciences
  • ProCure

  *Students should consult with the program administrators who will assist in the selection of an appropriate research mentor. Individual faculty members may or may not be available to serve as mentors.

Recommended Electives

• ANAT-A 580 Human Anatomy for Medical Imaging Evaluation
  (required if anatomy and physiology prerequisite has not been fulfilled)
• PHYS-P 410 Computing Applications in Physics
• PHYS-P 460 Modern Optics
• PHYS-P 506/507 Electricity and Magnetism
• MSCI-M 580 Molecular Biology of Cancer
• CSCI-A 521 Computing Tools for Scientific Research
• PHYS-P 551 Experiments in Modern Physics
• PHYS-P 570 Introduction to Accelerator Physics
• PHYS-P 540 Electronics
• PHYS-P 557 Solid State Physics
• PHYS-P 537 Neutron Physics and Scattering

Several excellent courses are offered at the medical center in Indianapolis. These courses can be used to satisfy MS curriculum requirements.