Employment Type:
Part time
Shift:
Day Shift
Description:
The medical physicist works as part of the radiation oncology team to assure the accurate delivery of a radiation treatment prescription by performing calculations of dose distributions, designing treatment aids/devices, and assuring the accuracy of the treatment unit parameters and settings for daily patient treatments.
What the Medical Physicist - Radiation Oncology will need:
Minimum: Master of Science degree in Medical Physics
Preferred: PhD in Medical Physics
Required: Board certified, or board eligible, by The American Board of Radiology or The American Board of Medical Physics.
*If board eligible, board exam shall be successfully passed within 18 months of hire.
What the Medical Physicist - Radiation Oncology will do:
Assists in planning for resource allocation with the rest of the radiation oncology team, including the following: equipment usage, selection and replacement, staffing requirements, budget preparation, and review of departmental policies and procedures.
Responsible for performance specification, acceptance testing, and commissioning of new equipment.
Performs calibration of the sources and maintenance of all information necessary for their appropriate use.
Develops and maintains a quality assurance program for all treatment modalities, localization procedures, and computational equipment and programs to assure the patients receive prescribed doses and dose distributions, within acceptable degrees of accuracy and according to the recommendations of AAPM task group reports, industry standards, accrediting organization, and federal and state regulations.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.
Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.
Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.
EOE including disability/veteran
