Medical Physicist

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Medical Physicist works with Chief Medical physicist and Dosimetrist to support Radiation Oncology clinical and equipment QA program.
• Medical physicist is responsible for assuring the delivery of high-quality radiation therapy through participation in linear accelerator quality assurance, treatment planning, and consultation in accordance with AAPM standards.
• Responsible for communicating with physicians, radiation therapist, dosimetrists, office personnel and nurses as needed to improve and excel at patient care in radiation therapy.
• Provides technical support and skills for adoption of new technology and is continually looking at opportunities for improving the delivery of physics and dosimetry support within the department.
• Assures a high level of treatment delivery by maintaining quality assurance and calibration procedures for all radiation devices according to accepted protocols and standards of practice.
• Responsible for physics treatment planning and radiation safety.
• Demonstrates compliance with Code of Conduct and compliance policies and takes action to resolve compliance questions or concerns and report suspected violations.
• Performs all physics responsibilities for radiation therapy departments which requires knowledge of an advanced field of science acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study specific to radiation physics.
• Reviews patient charts on a daily and weekly basis.
• Verifies total delivered radiation dose in ARIA.
• Notes treatment overrides and outstanding dose action points and follows up, completes electronic chart check in ARIA and charges continuing medical physics.
• Calibrates therapy linear accelerators according to the AAPM TG-51 protocol.
• Maintains NIST traceable calibrations on all ionization chambers and electrometers used for absolute calibration.
• Determines beam quality for both photon and electron beams. Measures accelerator output using correct set up geometry, correcting for variation in air pressure, phantom temperature, and beam quality.
• Adjusts accelerator dose integrator boards to keep output within specifications.
• Performs monthly and annual quality assurance tests on medical linear accelerators according to AAPM protocols.
• Trains and supervises physicists and dosimetrists who work in and/or rotate through the departments.
• Coordinates, reviews, and recommends action on maintenance contracts and works with Varian on upgrades and equipment needs.
• Oversees and integrates with Information Systems on all software and treatment planning modalities.

Education Required: Masters in Medical Physics/Physics Licensure.

Certification Required: Certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics by the ABR or ABMP, American Heart Association BLS Experience.

Experience Required: Three (3) years of experience including IMRT, stereotactic radiosurgery.