Medical Physicist

Medical physicists specialise in the healthcare profession. They work on developing new machines and technologies to help within the field of medicine. They look at making new systems to help investigate patient’s illnesses and conditions. They also look at making sure equipment within hospitals is safe and kept up to date.

Attributes, curious, creative, passionate

Useful links:

• • The British Science Association has a profile of Irene Mbutu-Austin who is a Nuclear Medicine Technologist and PhD student at King’s College London. They also have a profile of Mohammed Ess, Isotopes Intern, Business Development at Urenco. It’s part of their Smashing Stereotypes resource.

• Google Image Search link