Medical Imaging– 30 credit hours

Students in the MI Concentration conduct research studies under the mentorship of a faculty member or an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Radiology, an academic unit of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The Department of Radiology is dedicated to providing excellent patient care to the people of New Mexico and the Southwest as well as to the comprehensive education and training of radiologists, medical physicists, technologists, and research scientists in diagnostic imaging. Research laboratories of faculty members and affiliated faculty members of Radiology encompass all modalities of medical imaging with a specific focus on cancer imaging, neurological imaging, substance abuse and cognition/learning, and quantitative imaging techniques in preclinical and clinical disease models.

University Catalog Information

Students in the MI Concentration conduct research studies under the mentorship of a faculty member or an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Radiology, an academic unit of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The Department of Radiology is dedicated to providing excellent patient care to the people of New Mexico and the Southwest as well as to the comprehensive education and training of radiologists, medical physicists, technologists, and research scientists in diagnostic imaging. To this end, Radiology strives to improve patient care by optimizing image acquisition techniques and developing new imaging methods that increase sensitivity and specificity for disease detection and progression, and the Department is focused on innovating, collaborating, and translating research from bench to bedside. Research laboratories of faculty members and affiliated faculty members of Radiology encompass all modalities of medical imaging with a specific focus on cancer imaging, neurological imaging, substance abuse and cognition/learning, and quantitative imaging techniques in preclinical and clinical disease models.

Required Coursework

To earn a Concentration in Medical Imaging graduate students are required to take the following:

Following successful completion of the Qualifying Exam and remaining in Good Academic Standing (as defined by the BSGP), graduate training will mainly focus on laboratory research supervised by the student's mentor, and supplemented with the following advanced courses:

Course substitutions may be made with the prior approval of your Committee on Studies (COS).