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Student Experience of the Medical Physics STP

Rachel Bentley & Anthony Higgins. Student Experience of the Medical Physics STP. Contents. About Us Recruitment STP Structure MSc Rotations Competencies & Assessments Specialism Elective. About Us. Rachel MA Maths (Aberd) MSc Medical Physics Computing (Aberd)

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Student Experience of the Medical Physics STP

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  1. Rachel Bentley & Anthony Higgins Student Experience of the Medical Physics STP

  2. Contents • About Us • Recruitment • STP Structure • MSc • Rotations • Competencies & Assessments • Specialism • Elective

  3. About Us • Rachel • MA Maths (Aberd) • MSc Medical Physics Computing (Aberd) • Started September 2013 • Anthony • MPhys Physics (Ebor) • MSc Medical Physics (Leeds) • Started September 2012

  4. Recruitment • Application • Interviews • Location Selection

  5. Recruitment: Application • Application • Form • Psychometric test • Confirmation of interview • <2 weeks before first interview date • Location: Birmingham • => Expense

  6. Recruitment: Interviews & Locations • “Speed Dating” • Fresh start at each table • Difficult to put yourself across • Location • First Choice??

  7. STP Structure • Compared with IPEM • Structure makes sense: learn on the job instead of cramming for exams and forgetting • MSc • Rotations

  8. MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical Physics) • Location: Newcastle • Find short-term accommodation or commute • Provide accommodation? Different locations? • Opportunity to see another trust

  9. MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical Physics) • Medical Physics teaching excellent • Taught by physicists • Lots of hands-on learning & tutorials • Professional Practice needs to be relevant to physicists • Reflect that we have very little patient exposure • Taught by physicists? Not GPs

  10. MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical Physics) • Location: King’s College London • Told of location very last-minute • Find short-term accommodation or commute

  11. MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical Physics) • Teaching good • Taught by physicists • Long history of IPEM-accredited degree • Taught as single block • Syllabus very superficial • 1 lecture in ultrasound, 2 in MRI • Compared to 20+ in Leeds

  12. Rotations • Not taken as four 3-month blocks

  13. Rotations • Imaging with Ionising Radiation (3 months) • Radiation Safety (3 months) • Radiotherapy Physics (3 months) • Imaging with Non-ionising Radiation (3 months) • Diagnostic Radiology (9 weeks) • Radiation Protection (6 weeks) • Nuclear Medicine (10 weeks) • Radiotherapy (12 weeks) • Ultrasound (5 weeks) • UV/Lasers (3 weeks) • MRI (6 weeks)

  14. Rotations • Not taken as four 3-month blocks • First “year” takes approximately 15 months • Different staff to train and assess • Use of project-style work • Evidence • Feedback

  15. Competencies and Assessments • Some incredibly difficult to do • OCEs • CBDs • Professional Practice • Multiple competencies with single projects

  16. Specialism • Chosen towards the end of rotations • Incorporates MSc project

  17. Elective • Rehabilitation engineering • 4-week project

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