Responsibilities
The Physicist is a leading member of the radiotherapy team responsible for ensuring the safety of patients, medical staff, and the general public and improving quality of care to ensure accurate imaging and treatment of disease. These outcomes are achieved through numerous and varied activities, including administrative, clinical, educational, informatics, equipment performance evaluation (EPE), quality, and safety. Medical physicists are uniquely trained to contribute scientific advice and resources to solve technical and clinical problems relating to radiotherapy as well as to introduce new therapeutic procedures and tests using existing or new technologies. The Physicist collaborates with other Radiation Oncology team members.
Job Title: Physicist-Radiation Oncology
Location: Main Campus
Department: Radiation Oncology
Job Type: Full Time
Salary Range: $ 229,430 - $283,403 (Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.)
Qualifications
Education
Required: Master's or doctoral degree in physics, medical physics, biophysics, radiological physics, medical
health physics, or equivalent disciplines from an accredited graduate program
Preferred: Master's or doctoral degree in medical physics, radiological physics, or equivalent disciplines from a
CAMPEP accredited graduate program.
Completion of a residency in medical physics, radiological physics or equivalent disciplines from a CAMPEP
accredited residency program
Experience
Required: 3 years postgraduate
Experience in EBRT: 2D/3D/4D, IMRT/VMAT; SBRT; motion management (e.g., breath hold, SGRT), CT
simulation, Image registration
Experience with Varian technology including:
• TrueBeam radiotherapy system,
• Treatment planning system (Eclipse)
• Oncology information system (ARIA)
• Surface guidance (Vision RT/OSMS)
Experience in quality management, process improvement, and incident learning
Preferred: 5 years postgraduate professional experience
In addition to A., Experience in SRS, SRT
Experience with Varian technology including:
• Edge radiotherapy system
• Real-time motion management (gating via SGRT, RPM, triggered imaging)
• Mobius and Dose Lab QA systems
• Portal Dosimetry
Experience with third party systems including:
• Sun Nuclear QA systems including DQA3, Profiler, ArcCheck, 1D tank
• Radformation QA systems
• IBA 3D scanning system
Experience with GE CT simulation
Experience in change management, safety culture
Familiarity with Texas Radiation Control Regulations
License(s)
Required:
• Active Full Medical Physicist (FMP) license in therapeutic radiological physics per the Texas Occupations Code §602
• Active certification by:
The American Board of Radiology; or
The American Board of Medical Physics; or
The Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine
Preferred: N/A
Special Skills
Required:
• Medical physics practice knowledge
• Radiotherapy patient care and procedural skills
• Systems-based practice
Preferred: N/A
Other
Required:
•Interpersonal and communication skills
•Professionalism
Preferred: N/A
Working Environment: Medical Clinic/Other
About Us
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