Medical Physics and Health Informatics

Student will receive basic education in medical physics with a focus on imaging methods and their aspects
covering also safety issues. The course will include basics of health informatics and its important role
in healthcare systems. The course will focus mainly on practical skills with real medical instruments (for
example diagnostic ultrasound, electrocardiography, doppler ultrosound, thermography, etc.) and partly on
lectures to provide a theoretical background.

Course leader

Mgr. Erik Staffa. Ph.D.; doc. Mgr. Vladan Bernard, Ph.D.; Mgr. Daniel Vlk, CSc., MUDr. Aleš Bourek, PhD.

Target group

No academic pre-requirements, suitable for applicants for medicine study. Knowledge of physics
and biology at the secondary school level

Course aim

This course falls under Masaryk University's 'Intensive Summer School'. Students will study their classes in the morning and in the afternoon be free to participate in social and cultural activities arranged in and around Brno.