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What to Expect
We're looking for a full-time Board Certified/Board Eligible Medical Physicist to work with our highly collaborative and patient-focused team at St. Luke's Cancer Institute. This individual will be joining a team of physicists and physics assistants in an Aria/Eclipse environment with Varian TrueBeam linear accelerators. This role offers great work/life balance, retirement and health-care benefits, PTO, and sign-on and relocation bonuses.
Responsibilities
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Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols.
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Ensures that all radiation safety requirements throughout the facility are met in collaboration with the hospital Radiation Safety Officer.
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In coordination with other team members, develops and maintains a QA program.
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Ensures that the beam and source data are accurate and correctly entered into the treatment planning system.
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Establishes treatment planning and dose calculation procedures that are used throughout the department, and ensures their accuracy.
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In consultation with the radiation oncologists and dosimetrists, oversees treatment planning and determination of radiation dose distributions in patients undergoing treatment.
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Ensures policies and procedures contain proper elements of good radiation oncology practice, delivery of treatment, radiation safety, quality control, and regulatory compliance.
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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.
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Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
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Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols.
Technologies
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5 matched Varian TrueBeam Linacs
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1 Varian STx TrueBeam with HDMLC
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Bravos Afterloader
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ExacTrac Dynamic Precision Patient Monitoring System
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4 CT simulators with Varian RGSC 4DCT
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SunNuclear IC Profiler-base monthly QA procedures
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EPID Portal Dosimetry
Software
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Aria Record & Verify
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Eclipse 18.0
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RapidPlan
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MCO
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GPU Computing
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Brainlab
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Radformation
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QuickCode
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AutoContour
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ClearCheck
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ClearCalc
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EZFluence
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QuickCode
Qualifications
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Education: Master’s degree in Medical Physics or a related field
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Experience: 2 years in radiation oncology physics setting or completion of CAMPEP accredited residency.
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Licenses/Certifications: Certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics (TRP) or Therapeutic Medical Physics (TMP) by the ABR or ABMP
