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[QUOTE="Choppy, post: 5473522, member: 127425"] From my point of view (I'm a Medical Physicist in Canada), there certainly are repetitive aspects of the job, but I can't say I've ever been all that bored in the profession. Remember that every job has it's boring parts. Even if you became a professor with an unlimited research budget, doing science involves repeating a lot of measurements, establishing trends, staring at long lists of data, etc. Medical Physics can involve a lot of research, or not very much, depending on the ultimate position you take, the stage of your career, and even your own interests, etc. But even if you're a purely clinical Medical Physicist you tend to be the person that people come to when things don't work. A large portion of the job involves solving problems that come up in the clinic - figuring out the best plan for putting radiation into a patient that's a lot different from typical patients, what are the consequences of delivering radiation at a higher dose rate, commissioning a new treatment technique or a new measurement device, etc. - all the kinds of problems for which there is no manual, and no one you can call that knows the answer. And as Gleem says, you interact with a lot of different professions and I agree completely that interpersonal and communication skills are extremely important. Medical physicists tend to speak a lot of different languages: physics, electronics, engineering, medicine, IT, radiation protection, management, etc. and so often the job can involve translating information from one profession to another. [/QUOTE]
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