Medical Physicist
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The Medical Physicist will ensure the accurate calibration of radiation sources and treatment machines, oversee treatment planning, and maintain quality assurance in collaboration with a patient-focused team at St. Luke's Cancer Institute. This role contributes to radiation safety and regulatory compliance within an Aria/Eclipse environment.
Responsibilities
- Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols.
- Ensures that all radiation safety requirements throughout the facility are met in collaboration with the hospital Radiation Safety Officer.
- In coordination with other team members, develops and maintains a QA program.
- Ensures that the beam and source data are accurate and correctly entered into the treatment planning system.
- Establishes treatment planning and dose calculation procedures that are used throughout the department, and ensures their accuracy.
- In consultation with the radiation oncologists and dosimetrists, oversees treatment planning and determination of radiation dose distributions in patients undergoing treatment.
- Ensures policies and procedures contain proper elements of good radiation oncology practice, delivery of treatment, radiation safety, quality control, and regulatory compliance.
- Releases a treatment machine into clinical service after maintenance, and documents that any alteration caused by the maintenance and repair schedule does not affect the accelerator performance or calibration.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Medical Physics or a related field
- 2 years of experience in radiation oncology physics setting or completion of CAMPEP accredited residency
- Board Certified/Board Eligible Medical Physicist
- Certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics (TRP) or Therapeutic Medical Physics (TMP) by the ABR or ABMP
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Medical Physics or a related field
- 2 years in radiation oncology physics setting or completion of CAMPEP accredited residency.
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About St. Luke's Health System
Award-winning, not-for-profit health system recognized for community care, clinical excellence, and long-term stability with eight hospitals across southwest Idaho.