Graduates in the Master’s Degree in Medical Physics, whether at national or international level, focus their activity on:

-Teaching and research.

-Maintenance and equipment development, whether in hospitals or companies of the area.

- Working on radiology services and radioprotection in private or public hospitals.

Radio physicists or physicists who are experts on radiations are in charge of concrete assistance tasks in hospitals like for example the planning of radiation treatments, control of radiology equipment, design and control of radiologic facilities and staff and radiation-exposed areas control, etc. These tasks are legislated since the moment the access programme to the Radio physical Department Intern Resident in Hospitals was created. Royal Decree 220/1997 of 14 February creates and regulates the obtaining of an official title in Specialists in Hospital Radio Physics after a regulated postgraduate training which is theoretical and practical. It is essential to develop practical aspects through a hospital resident system with a training period of three consecutive years. After this time, you obtain a speciality in Hospital Radio Physics that allows you to develop professionally such tasks. To access different teaching unities allowed to train Specialist in Hospital Radio Physics, it is necessary to pass an official national test made by the Ministry of Health and Consumption that selects applicants (Physics graduates or other advanced degree in scientific or technological disciplines)

Even though this Master’s Degree does not offer training in the specialisation of Radio Physics ─which can be obtained through the hospital residence system─, it is intended to train students physics and technological aspects that are needed as a base to go deep in the Medical Physics field, both in its aspects related to radio therapy and nuclear medicine and also other aspects of the application of Physics in Medicine, whether practical or in associated research in this knowledge field. This knowledge can be obtained with this Master’s Degree, they are even more important given that “Medical Physics” is internationally recognised as a profession once it was accepted by ILO (International Labour Organization) and integrated in the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), in which it is indicated to be one of the tasks of the profession to guarantee safety and effectiveness of radiation, both ionizing and not ionizing, provided by patients to reach results that are diagnostic and therapeutic and prescribed by a specialist doctor. This way, among general tasks of this profession, research in this field is one of them.