About the Education

The Master programme in Medicine & Technology is an interdisciplinary education jointly offered by the groups involved in Biomedical Engineering at The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Copenhagen (KU).

Students are enrolled at both universities and spend 70% of their time at DTU and 30% at the University of Copenhagen with access to the vast amount of courses at both universities.

The many major hospitals and biomedical companies in Greater Copenhagen also contribute and are heavily involved in the education by providing guest lectures and offering student projects.  

The region also houses many internationally esteemed research groups that participate in the education. This includes groups within MR, PET imaging, ultrasound, biomechanics, hearing aid research, image interpretation, and cognitive signal processing among a whole range of other research groups.

The open and informal atmosphere at the university groups makes it easy to find an interesting subject for the Master thesis, and there are many possibilities of pursuing a PhD degree after obtaining a MSc in Medicine & Technology.

The programme aims at educating candidates that understand the clinical problems facing modern medicine and give them the ability to suggest new technological solutions for the future. Modern medicine increasingly relies on advanced equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of patients. This covers the range from large scanners for X-Ray Computed Tomography, PET scanners for the study of the molecular processes in cancer to pacemakers and DNA chips for studying the genome. Together they all share complex technology underlying their operation.

The role of the MSc in Medicine & Technology is to give the candidates the background for developing such equipment. This includes courses on human physiology ranging from the functions at the organ level to the cellular as well as the genome level, and the modeling of physiological processes. The technical courses are divided into three specialization tracks covering e.g. medical imaging, signal processing, biomechanics, and biomaterials. Compulsory courses on pathophysiology, statistics and on biomedical product development are also included.

Students may to a very large extent determine their own course portfolio and select among the many courses offered at the two universities. The courses vary from highly theoretical to practical courses with the opportunity for experimental work in advanced state-of-the-art laboratories. The final Master thesis project is often associated with current research projects and made in collaboration with a biomedical company or hospital.  

Study lines

Signal and model based diagnostic, Medical imaging and radiation physics, Biomechanics and biomaterials

Programme Coordinator

Professor Jens E. Wilhjelm