Teaching and Student Supervision
Within the McGill Medical Physics Unit, I
teach the following courses:
- MDPH 603 - Radiotherapy laboratory
(instructor for one laboratory session per
year)
Within the Gerald Bronfman Dept.
of Oncology, I coordinate and developed the
curriculum for the 3-credit ONCO
630 Practicum Project of the Graduate
Diploma in Oncology program.
Additionally, once per year I teach radiation
physics to McGill radiology medical
residents.
My clinical physics
notes, written during my time as a physics
resident, and continuously updated as I learn
new things in my day-to-day clinical experience,
are used by the McGill medical physics
residents.
Students
To date, I have officially supervised
(primary supervisor) one Postdoc, 4 Ph.D.
candidates, 14 M.Sc. students, 6 research
assistants, 5 interns and 33 undergraduate
students in Medical Physics.
During the Fall and Winter semesters I offer the
MDPH
396 course to good undergraduate students
who are interested in medical physics research
experience. During the summer months I offer
paid research work to undergraduate students.
The table below lists the students that I am
presently supervising and that I have supervised
in the past.
MDPH 613 - Health
Physics for Medical Physicists
This graduate-level course provides
students in the McGill Medical Physics M.Sc
program with an introduction to radiation
protection. It incorporates a study of the
physics and biology of radiation interactions
with matter and tissue and examines the
application of our scientific knowledge to the
formulation of public health policy. The course
covers a broad range of subjects from pure
science to law and management and draws upon
publications by national and international
bodies.
I have written a full set of notes for this
class. Each year I add a little more to the set.
My goal is to eventually produce a useful Health
Physics textbook for medical physics students.
 
Class Notes for MDPH 613 prepared by John
Kildea (available upon request)
The application of radiation protection to the
medical environment is studied in detail and
students participate in a laboratory exercise to
design and optimize radiation shielding for a
radiotherapy clinic in order to comply with
national regulations and following international
design recommendations.
Conceptual Overview of Health Physics for
Medical Physicists
For course summary and curriculum, please see
the class
page.
MDPH 612 -
Instrumentation and Computation for
Medical Physicists
This graduate-level
course provides students in the McGill Medical
Physics M.Sc program with an introduction to electronics
and computation techniques. It includes
basic electronics, operational amplifiers,
electrometers, linac components as well as
introductory software development and the scrum
methodology for agile development.
I provide a full set of notes for the
electronics portion (available via Google
docs).
Class Notes for MDPH 612 prepared by
John Kildea
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