Career Options for Biomedical Research
MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering offers this seminar for students weighing an MD, PhD, or combined degree path into biomedical research. Sessions run as case presentations featuring research clinicians and scientists discussing career paths and open problems in radiological sciences, including magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, other nuclear imaging methods, and radiation therapy advances. The course also surveys adjacent fields such as biomedical engineering, medical physics, and medical engineering, comparing them against the curriculum options available through MIT's nuclear science program. Materials include readings assigned before or after each seminar and a short term project, reflecting the course's modest, discussion-driven format rather than a lecture-heavy structure. It suits students trying to decide which advanced degree and specialty would fit a career split between hospital and academic research settings. Available free through MIT OpenCourseWare with no certificate offered.