Specialized facilities for training and research are available in the departmental clinical laboratories, the Laboratory of Structural and Molecular Biological Sciences, the Image Processing Laboratory, and a number of associated hospitals.
Clinical equipment is available to supervised students for practicums and research purposes.
Students are trained to become independent investigators. The program also prepares the student for a career as a professional medical physicist and graduates are qualified to work in a clinical environment and to pursue board certification as a medical physicist or to apply for a clinical medical physics residency. Graduates in biomedical physics can expect to engage in any combination of clinical service, consultation, research, and teaching. Biomedical physicists are usually employed in hospitals frequently associated with a medical school, where they are members of the academic faculty. They are also in demand in high-technology private industry engaging in research and development of diagnostic equipment.