MEDPHY 718
Clinical Practicum and Shadowing (Medical Health Physics)
Chu Wang
Description from DukeHub
This practicum course provides hands-on experiences in various hospital health physics functions, in RAM lab oversight, in X-Ray room shielding and verification, and in license preparation experience under NRC/States oversight. The course includes shadowing a clinician, technologist, and physicist, while performing their routine clinical tasks.
Skills
AI-resilient: 3 of 5
- Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "hands-on"
- Yes: Live work with people · "clinical"
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · title: "practicum"
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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