Medical Physicist

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Therapeutic Medical Physicist:

• Primarily and professionally engaged in the evaluation, delivery, and optimization of therapeutic applications of ionizing radiation, and the equipment associated with their production, use and measurement.
• Oversees the maintenance and repairs of simulation and radiation treatment units.
• Responsible for releasing these machines for sale, clinical use following service.
• Performs and oversees calibrations, quality assurance monitoring, acceptance testing and commissioning for all radiation oncology simulation, planning, and treatment equipment.
• Role involves clinical and educational components.
• Performs radiation safety duties as required for regulatory compliance and safe use of ionizing radiation.
• Reviews treatment plan calculations and data input into record and verifies system for accuracy, as performed by physics and technical employees.
• Performs and oversees external beam and brachytherapy treatment plans.

2. Diagnostic/Nuclear Medical Physicist:

• Performs and/or oversees the setup and operation of imaging equipment in Radiology and other imaging locations; this includes acceptance testing, phantom imaging for accreditation and routine testing as required by regulatory and accreditation programs.
• Measure and characterize medical radiation from imaging equipment prior to clinical utilization.
• Uses scientific methodology to validate quantitative measurements from imaging as appropriate.
• Role involves clinical and educational components.
• Performs radiation safety duties and/or magnetic resonance safety duties as required for regulatory compliance and safe use of imaging modalities.
• Evaluate radiation dose from prescribed protocols for imaging with ionizing radiation; evaluate risk profiles when required; provide calculations for exposures of pregnant patients.

3. Equipment/Software requirements:

• Varian Truebeam linear accelerators, Aria R&V, Eclipse TPS, RadCalc secondary QA program, BrachyVision HDR treatment planning, Sun Nuclear ArcCHECK, MapCHECK 2, SRS MapCHECK, IC Profiler, SNC Patient/Machine for patient and daily, monthly, annual QA.

Education:

• Master’s Degree in Radiological or Medical Physics – Required.

Requirements:

• 2 Years of experience.

Therapeutic Medical Physicist:

• In a clinical setting, including machine calibrations and radiation oncology treatment planning and dose calculations.

Diagnostic/Nuclear Medical Physicist:

• X-ray, CT, MR, nuclear medicine and ultrasound imaging.
• Use of phantoms and other test devices to evaluate image quality and equipment performance.
• Evaluate and convey risks of ionizing radiation exposure from x-ray and gamma ray use.
• Evaluation of risk to high strength magnetic fields and MR radiofrequency exposure.
• ABR or ABMP.