Medical Physics and Biomedical Sciences

Medical Physics and Biomedical Sciences#

The stream leaders for this combination are:

Medical Physics	Dr Pavlo Zubko	p.zubko@ucl.ac.uk
Biomedical Sciences	Dr Paola Vergani	p.vergani@ucl.ac.uk

Year 1

This combination is no longer offered at first year level

Year 2

This combination is no longer offered at second year level

Year 3

Core modules


NSCI0004	Literature Project for Natural Sciences BSc/MSci Programme	15 credits	T1&2

(Biomedical Sciences)
Major stream select 60-75 credits; Minor stream select 30-45 credits

Option Modules


PHOL0006	Respiration in Health and Disease	15 credits	T2	[*]
PHAR0011	Molecular Pharmacology	15 credits	T1
PHOL0007	Heart and Circulation	30 credits	T1
PHOL0008	Cell Signalling in Health and Disease	30 credits	T1&2	[**]
PHAR0012	Receptor Mechanisms	15 credits	T1	[**]
INIM0006	Immunology in Health and Disease	15 credits	T1	[†]
PHAR0014	Drug Design and Development	15 credits	T1
NEUR0020	Integrative Systems Neuroscience	15 credits	T1

[*] highly recommended
[**] cannot be selected together
[†] INIM0005 desirable
Speak to Stream Leader if you have any queries about option modules

(Medical Physics)
Major stream select 60-75 credits; Minor stream select 30-45 credits

Core modules

Major stream select all modules; Minor stream choose 30-45 credits


MPHY0018	Biomedical Ultrasound	15 credits	T1
MPHY0016	Medical Imaging with Ionising Radiation	15 credits	T2
MPHY0038	Treatment with Ionising Radiation	15 credits	T1

Major stream options

Choose 15-30 credits


MPHY0039	Applications of Biomedical Engineering	15 credits	T2
PHAS0054	Practical Physics 3 (For Natural Sciences)	15 credits	T2

Year 4

Choose the relevant research project


BIOS0017	MSci Research Project in Life Sciences	60 credits	T1&2
MPHY0036	Research Project in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (Masters Level)	45 credits	T1&2

(Biomedical Sciences)
Major stream select 30-60 credits; Minor stream select 0-30 credits

Option Modules


ANAT0013	Pain	15 credits	T2
PHAR0013	Pharmacology of Inflammation (Extended)	30 credits	T2
CELL0018	Research Techniques in Cell Biology	15 credits	T1	[**]
PHAR0010	Neuropharmacology	15 credits	T1
PHOL0009	The Cellular Basis of Brain Function	30 credits	T1	[*]
PHAR0019	Pharmacology of Inflammation	15 credits	T2
NEUR0019	Foundations of Neuroinformatics	15 credits	T2
NEUR0016	Neural Computation: Models of Brain Function !Pre-requisites: ANAT0003	15 credits	T1	[*]
INIM0030	Immunodeficiency and Therapeutics	15 credits	T2	[†]
CELL0027	Computational Cell Biophysics	15 credits	T1

(Medical Physics)
Major stream select 45-75 credits; Minor stream select 0-30 credits

Option Modules


MPHY0015	Physiological Monitoring	15 credits	T1
MPHY0019	MRI and Biomedical Optics	15 credits	T2
MPHY0020	Computing in Medicine	15 credits	T1
MPHY0037	Medical Electronics and Neural Engineering	15 credits	T2
MPHY0030	Programming Foundations for Medical Image Analysis	15 credits	T1
MPHY0039	Applications of Biomedical Engineering	15 credits	T2

Y4 students to avoid taking both MPHY0020 and MPHY0030 together – both term 1, MPHY0020 is introductory (50% MATLAB and appropriate for those with little/no prior experience of computing, includes digital signal and image processing, topics on general application of computing to medicine), MPHY0030 – more advanced for those with prior programming experience