Changes and demands in the higher education sector are increasingly making advanced degree medical physics programs nonviable and the profession will have to develop a new model for delivering such education

At universities, advanced degree programs in Medical Physics tend to have relatively few students compared to, for example, programs in other Physics subspecialties. This tends to make them relatively more expensive to operate, and since universities are always looking for ways to reduce costs, there is some concern that such programs will cease to be affordable and other ways to educate medical physicists should be developed.