• Question: what do you all do as jobs

    Asked by 864medh27 to Christopher, Dan, Jen, Mohan, Sarah on 9 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Jen Dennis

      Jen Dennis answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      I’m a medical physicist working in Nuclear Medicine in an NHS hospital.

    • Photo: Mohan K

      Mohan K answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      I am a Clinical Scientist specialising in nuclear medicine working in an NHS hospital. Clinical Scientists are a distinct staff group from nurses and doctors (although people often mistake me for a doctor!). There are many different specialty areas of clinical science but we all apply our scientific thinking and our scientific methods to clinical problems in the hospital.

    • Photo: Sarah De Vos

      Sarah De Vos answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      I’m a trainee radiotherapy physicist. Which is a type of clinical scientist. Not many people know who we are and what we do! Radiotherapy physicists tend to work in hospitals and they are responsible for ensuring that the machines which deliver radiation work the way they should. Which involves a ton of testing, either in the morning before people are treated or at the end of the day. We will also make the treatment plans for people, which in simple terms specifies how many beams to use and where to point them at and for how long. Most of us are also involved in research. We are constantly looking at ways to improve the way we treat cancer.

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