The Mount Sinai Center for Radiation Sciences Education at Stony Brook University is a partnership between Mount Sinai Health System’s Department of Radiation Oncology and the School of Health Professions. The Medical Dosimetry clinical concentration was developed to educate and prepare students to meet the daily challenges of a dosimetrist in the dynamic field of radiation oncology and meet the growing demand for dosimetrists nationwide. A Medical Dosimetrist is a member of the radiation oncology team. Medical dosimetrists have the education and expertise necessary to generate radiation dose distributions and dose calculations for cancer patients in collaboration with the medical physicist and the radiation oncologist. After completion of the didactic courses in this clinical concentration, students continue on the clinical non-credit, non-degree certificate program. The 12 months of clinical rotations in the medical dosimetry clinical non-credit, non-degree certificate program are conducted at the Mount Sinai Health System. Successful completion of both the concentration and the clinical non-credit, non-degree certificate program are required in order to be eligible to take the national registry examination. Job opportunities may be found in cancer treatment centers and hospitals. Since this is a program within the Health Science major, applications for the clinical non-credit, non-degree certificate program, are only accepted from students who have been advanced to the major’s senior year curriculum.
Accreditation
In 2015, our program was re-accredited by the JRCERT for a total of 8 years. The program received permission from JRCERT to have the re-accreditation site visit conducted in April 2024, to facilitate a joint visit with Radiation Therapy. The Medical Dosimetry program is incompliance with the requirements of the United States Department of Education, if an institution or program elects to make public disclosure of its accreditation status, program publications must state that the program is accredited by the: Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology 20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 2850 Chicago, Illinois 60606-3182, Phone: 312.704.5300, Email: mail@jrcert.org
The program’s current accreditation award is 8 years. General program accreditation information and the current accreditation award letter can be found at: https://www.jrcert.org/programs/suny-at-stony-brook-university-2/. The most recent award letter can be found here.
Admission Requirements
For admission requirements to the clinical concentrations, technical standards, and program effectiveness data please refer to the Medical Dosimetry Concentration | School of Health Professions website.
Note: Enrollment in HAN 395 - Radiation Physics in Medicine (4 credits) is required during the fall semester of the senior year to submit an application for this concentration of study. Acceptance into the non-credit, non-degree certificate program is required in order to enter the concentration.
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