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Suggested Elective Courses

Suggested elective courses available to students and trainees in our Committee on Medical Physics, listed by Department or Division giving course number and course name.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology:
30100Basic Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
30200Molecular and Cell Biology
32200Introduction to Biophysical Methods

Biological Sciences College Division:
20181Cell and Molecular Biology
20182Genetics
20242Physiology
24222Comutational Neuroscience II: Vision
25108Cancer Biology
20200Introduction to Biochemistry
22248Physiology of Vision
22243Biomechanics of Organisms
31400General Principles of Genetic Analysis

Psychology:
38000Sensation and Perception
32000Color vision
35000Physiology of Vision
39000Vision

Business:
45100Health Studies
48100Public Policy

Computer Science:
10200, 10700Introduction to Computer Programming II, III
22300Networks and Distributed Systems
35500Computer Vision

Chemistry:
26100, 26200, 26300Elementary Physical Chemistry I, II, III
36300Statistical Mechanics
36400Chemical Thermodynamics

Mathematics:
20200Mathematical Methods for Physical Science III
21100Basic Numerical Analysis
22000, 22100Mathematical Methods in Physics I and II
27500Basic Theory of Partial Differential Equations

Medical Physics:
34100Introduction to Research
34600Clinical Radiation Oncology Physics I
34700Clinical Radiation Oncology Physics II
35300Medical Image Reconstruction
35400Health Physics
35500Clinical Physics in Nuclear Medicine
35800Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Resonance
37000Advanced Computing for Imaging Applications
37100Statistical Image Reconstruction
38200Transfer Function Analysis of Radiologic Imaging Systems
38300Analysis of Noise in Radiologic Imaging
38400Principles of ROC Analysis
39100Physics of Mammography
39300Clinical Physics in Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
39400Chemistry of Diagnostic Agents
39600Image Processing and Computer Vision
41700Research in Medical Physics
42000Research in the Physics of Nuclear Medicine
42100Research in the Physics of Diagnostic Radiology
42200Research in the Physics of Radiation Therapy
42300Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy

Pathology:
30100Cell Pathology and Immunology
30900Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer Biology

Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences:
30400Organ Physiology and Endocrinology
30500Systems Neuroscience

Physics:
22600Electronics
23400,23500Quantum Mechanics I and II
23600Solid State Physics
23700Nucleii and Elementary Physics
25000Computational Physics
31600Advanced Classical Mechanics
32300, 32400Advanced Electrodynamics I and II
33000, 33100 Mathematical Methods of Physics I and II
33400Advanced Laboratory
34100,34200,34300Quantum Mechanics I, II and III
35200Statistical Mechanics

Radiology:
31000Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology

Radiation Oncology:
30700Fundamentals of Clinical Radiation Therapy
35300Advanced Radiation Dosimetry
37800Basic Radiation Biology
37900Advanced Medical Radiobiology
42300Cancer and Radiobiology

Statistics:
22200Linear Models and Experimental Design
22400Applied Regression Analysis
22600Analysis of Categorical Data
23400-23500Statistical Models and Methods I, II
24400-24500Statistical Theory and Methods I, II
24700Introduction to Probability Models
31200-31300Introduction to Stochastic Processes I and II
32900Applied Multivariate Analysis
34300Applied Linear Statistical Methods

Official course descriptions can be found in the University's online course catalog.
Below are the courses recently taken by CMP students.

PHYS 34100 Quantum Mechanics I
PHYS 32200 Advanced Electrodynamics I
PHYS 30900 Introduction To Beam Physics
CHEM 26800/36800 Computational Chemistry
STAT 24400 & 24500 Statistics: Theory and Methods I & II
STAT 37900/ CMSC 35500 Topics in Computer Vision
STAT 30700/ CMSC 37800 Numerical Computation
CMSC 23300/33300 Networks and Distributed Systems
CMSC 34000 Scientific Parallel Computing
CMSC 35600/ RADI 39600 Image Processing and Computer Vision
RADI 35800 Biomedical Applications in Magnetic Resonance
BIOS 20191 Cell and Molecular Biology

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General Requirements
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Descriptions of Medical Physics Courses
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