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Health Physics

The University of Texas M.d. Anderson Cancer Center ( M.D. Anderson Hospital)

  • A program that focuses on the application of physics, nuclear science, and engineering physics to diagnostic, treatment, and therapeutic processes and public health protection. Includes instruction in radiation biophysics, biophysics, health effects of natural and artificially induced radiation, hazard evaluation, environmental radioactivity, nuclear physics, engineering physics, radiobiology, medical radiology, calibration and dosage theory, computer applications and medical informatics, and specific research problems. Find Colleges Offering Health Physics Degree.
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    • Job Description
      Conduct research into the phases of physical phenomena, develop theories and laws on the basis of observation and experiments, and devise methods to apply laws and theories to industry and other fields.
      Salary and Wages

      Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX

      • Total Employment: 120
      • Average Annual Salary: $115,550
      • Average Hourly Rate: $55.55
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 16,516
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 17,641
      • Percent Job Growth: 6.81%
      Important Abilities
      • Oral Comprehension
      • Written Comprehension
      • Oral Expression
      • Written Expression
      • Fluency of Ideas
      • Originality
      • Problem Sensitivity
      • Deductive Reasoning
      • Inductive Reasoning
      • Information Ordering
    • Job Description
      Teach courses in health specialties, such as veterinary medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, therapy, laboratory technology, and public health.
      Important Abilities
      • Oral Comprehension
      • Written Comprehension
      • Oral Expression
      • Written Expression
      • Deductive Reasoning
      • Inductive Reasoning
      • Speech Clarity
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    Awarded Degrees and Program Completion Details
    Health Physics
     TotalCertificateBachelor
    Overall
    All Students1248
     
    By Gender
    Male523
    Female725
     
    By Race
    Non-Resident Alien---
    American Indian---
    Black1-1
    Asian3-3
    Hispanic---
    White844
    Unknown---
     
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