PROFESSIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS 2 - 2026/7

Module Overview

The module will build on the concepts learned in the first year to prepare students for leadership in healthcare and for effective communication with patients.
It will expand the range of radiation laboratory experiments carried out in Year 1

Module provider

Mathematics & Physics

Module Leader

PANI Silvia (Maths & Phys)

Number of Credits: 15

ECTS Credits: 7.5

Framework: FHEQ Level 6

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Year long

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

none

Module content

Experimental skills
- Radiation laboratories
- Advanced statistics

The profession of the medical physicist
- Leadership in healthcare and change management
- Ethics in public health
- Data governance
- Intellectual property protection

Communication skills and stakeholder engagement
- Science communication
- Patient engagement
- Patient consent and introduction to history taking

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

n/a

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the medical physics and the broader healthcare leadership context, as well as how patient care is embedded in their practice.

Thus, the summative assessment for this module consists of:
¿ A lab report on one of the radiation laboratory experiments.
¿ A quiz on advanced statistics
¿ A service development proposal based on a workplace situation
¿ A reflective exercise on change management
¿ A patient information sheet on a procedure related to their clinical practice.

Formative assessment
Students will be able to test their understanding of the topics during interactive exercises that will be an integral part of the workshops.

Feedback
Students will receive written feedback on their submitted coursework and verbal feedback throughout the module.

Module aims

• Equip the students with a set of skills and knowledge necessary to work in healthcare, research or industry
• Prepare them as effective communicators to a diverse audience
• ¿ Provide the student with the comprehensive understanding of the experimental use of radioac-tive materials, radiation counting, spectroscopy equipment, dosimetry measurements and stand-ard radiation experimental techniques

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy is designed to expose students to the variety of aspects that make up the scenarios in which they will operate as medical physicists.
They will be engaged in academic- or expert-led discussions and group work, and strengthen the team working skills they have built in their first year.
They will also learn scientific communication, through interactive workshops, with a particular focus on patient communication which will be achieved through interaction with patient groups or patient advocacy charities.

The learning and teaching methods include:
¿ Lectures
¿ Seminars
¿ Interactive workshops with academic- or expert-led discussion of case studies
¿ Laboratory sessions in which students will work in pairs or small groups on scripted experiments
¿ Additional online modules to provide a healthcare management perspective

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: PHY3077

Other information

The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences is committed to developing graduates with strengths in Digital Capabilities, Employability, Global and Cultural Capabilities, Resourcefulness, Resilience, and Sustainability. This module is designed to allow students to develop knowledge, skills and capabilities in the following areas: Digital Capabilities: Students will engage with scientific publication databases and will learn to distinguish between different sources of information. They will use specialist software for data acquisition and data analysis. Employability: The module exposes students to topics as ethics, data governance, leadership in healthcare and patient communication that will be essential for a career in healthcare. Global and Cultural Capabilities: Students will learn to engage with the general public, in particular with patients. This will give them an understanding of the different levels of communication and of the need to adapt their communication to different audiences and cultures. Resourcefulness and Resilience: Problem solving is a key component of this module. Students will be required to draw upon individual and collective resourcefulness and develop a problem-solving mindset as they work on their experiments. The assessments for the module are mostly open-ended activities, which will encourage the students to gain independence.

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2026/7 academic year.