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CIP PROGRAM: 51.2205
Health/Medical Physics.

Summary: 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.

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National Completion Rate Trends

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Change - -25.58% +29.57%

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51.2207 Public Health Education and Promotion.
51.2208 Community Health and Preventive Medicine.
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51.2210 International Public Health/International Health.
51.2211 Health Services Administration.
51.2212 Behavioral Aspects of Health.
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51.2280 Reserved.
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Institutions granting degrees in Health/Medical Physics.

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