About the job Medical Physicist
Cancer Center in Lebanon, Tennessee, is seeking a full-time Medical Physicist! Close to Nashville, so you can enjoy everything the city offers. Then, come home to a peaceful, quaint setting. Must be Authorized to work in the United States.
Start date: January 2025
Equipment: Varian TrueBeam, Eclipse, and Aria
Patient Volume: 25-30 Patients per/day
Modalities: IMRT and SBRT. No Brachy.
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Qualifications
- A Masters or Doctors degree in physics, biophysics, radiological physics, or health physics
- One year of full-time training in therapeutic radiological physics
- One year of full-time experience in a therapy facility including personal calibration and spot check of at least one teletherapy unit
Responsibilities
- The medical physicist is responsible for the appropriate use of the treatment planning system, including evaluating a treatment plan for the delivery of radiation treatment based on the radiation oncologists prescribed course of radiation therapy, ensuring that the patient will not lose important healthy organ function and that the radiation delivered will not affect healthy surrounding tissue
- The medical physicist is responsible for the appropriate use of the electronic medical record, including maintaining an accurate record of treatment planning progress, and communication and documentation of relevant patient information
- The medical physicist is responsible for the performance and documentation of quality assurance in the clinic, including software QA, hardware QA, and patient QA
- Calibrate therapy equipment in a manner suitable for accurate radiation dose delivery
- Serve as the focal point for machine maintenance and repair
- Direct the determination of radiation dose distributions in patients undergoing treatment (i.e
- computerized dosimetry planning or direct radiation measurement)
- Maintain proper records necessary for APEx, NRC, state, or other regulatory agencies
- Design and implement pertinent aspects of the quality management program that involve the use of external beam radiotherapy equipment
- Manage the medical physics service in a manner to meet or exceed established standards of practice consistent with the facility size and available resources
- Establish, develop, and monitor procedures for measuring the performance levels of equipment used in radiation oncology
- Evaluate new technologies and implement as needed, including acceptance testing of new equipment and treatment devices
- Consult with the radiation oncologists, as required, concerning patient doses and optimization of patient treatment plans and delivery
- Provide technical direction of radiation oncology staff as specified by the Director of Medical Physics
Why Choose Rad Onc Solutions, LLC?
-We have agreements with some of the country's largest cancer care providers.
-We will identify what you are looking for and where you dream to be, then put you in front of the people that matter.
-No more applying for opportunities and waiting for months to hear whether you have been accepted or not.
-Our team has over 40 years of combined Clinical Radiation Oncology experience, we understand the dynamics within the clinic and how to create a perfect match.
-Our main goal is Patient care. Period. Whether you are a Therapist, Dosimetrist, Physicist, or Physician, you will have one point of contact who is heavily invested in your success.