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Medical Dosimetrist

UPMC -
Pittsburgh, PA

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Job Details

Full-time
$48.08 - $73.65 an hour

Benefits

Continuing education credits

Qualifications

Data quality checks
Diagnostic imaging equipment
Fabrication
Completing CE credits
Medical documentation
Clinical research
Accreditation standards (regulatory compliance area)
Certified Medical Dosimetrist
Professional ethics
Conventional linear accelerators
CT simulators
Care documentation
Radiation monitoring tools
Mid-level
Radiation oncology
3 years
Clinical staff training
Bachelor's degree
Charge capture (medical billing)
Clinical training
Team training
Clinical information systems
Quality control
Radiologic image processing
MRI
Oncology research
Multidisciplinary team collaboration for treatment planning
Medical device treatment planning
Patient immobilization
Managing patient records

Full Job Description

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is currently hiring for a regular Full-Time Staff/Sr. Medical Dosimetrist to join our team in the Central Region of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Network. The dosimetrist in this position will be based out of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center at UPMC Shadyside in Pittsburgh, PA, and will provide planning services for the clinic.

This role offers a hybrid work arrangement with on-site duties, work-from-home capability and will work a regular Full-Time schedule Monday through Friday.
This position joins 6 other medical dosimetrists dedicated to this department and a larger team of 40+ dosimetrists across the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Network.
Collaboration and remote support across the group is facilitated by our integrated ARIA/Eclipse and Citrix-based IT infrastructure, as well as standardized policies, procedures, and care pathways across UPMC.
The medical dosimetrist is responsible for generating clinically optimal treatment plans for radiation therapy patients in collaboration with radiation oncologists, radiation therapy technologists, and medical physicists.
This includes participating in CT simulation, radiation treatment planning, quality management for radiation oncology patients, and communicating with the clinical team during treatment planning and treatment plan implementation.
Treatment techniques include 3DCRT, IMRT, VMAT, SBRT, and motion management (e.g., respiratory gating and DIBH). UPMC Shadyside delivers radiotherapy treatments with a variety of platforms(2 Varian TrueBeams, 1 Varian Halcyon, and 1 Reflexion).

We offer a Dosimetry career ladder which allows our staff to grow within the field at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. The incumbent will be placed into the appropriate level of our Dosimetry Career ladder based on education and experience.

Staff/Sr. Dosimetrist salary range between $48.08/hr. to $73.65/hr.
- Sr. level requires three (3) years of post-graduate clinical medical dosimetry experience.

Responsibilities:

Participates in acquisition of patient data via computer generated data sets from medical imaging devices such as CT, PET, MR, etc., or manual methods such as physical measurements and wire contours, and incorporation of these data into radiation treatment plans, calculations, and treatment devices.
Assists the RTT in the treatment simulation process including the use or necessity of ancillary treatment devices, patient immobilization techniques, and other patient positioning techniques as needed for simulation and treatment. Assists in fabrication of these ancillary treatment devices.
Contours and delineates clearly discernable normal critical structures and expanded planning structures using different imaging modalities.
Performs rigid and deformable image registration for multi-modality image sets.
Applies the principles and concepts of radiation physics in radiation treatment planning, which includes, but is not limited to: 2D treatment planning, 3D conformal treatment planning, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning, 4D treatment planning, volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) planning, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) planning, and brachytherapy treatment planning.
Applies knowledge of radiobiology with respect to dose tolerances, time dose fractionation calculations, hypofractionation, BED and EQD2 calculations and other applications of radiobiology to the radiation therapy treatment process.
Accurately performs radiation dose calculations, both manual and computer generated, for treatment delivery including the effects of beam modifying devices, irregular fields, gaps for adjacent fields, and off-axis calculations.
Participates in special treatment procedures including, but not limited to, total body irradiation (TBI), total skin electron irradiation (TSEI), intra-operative radiation therapy (IORT).
Assists with quality assurance procedures as directed by a qualified medical physicist.
Performs or assists with patient-specific radiation measurement including, but not limited to diodes, optically stimulated luminescent dosimeters (OSLD), ion chambers, thermo-luminescent dosimeters (TLD), or film measurements as directed by the MP.
Assists with high dose rate (HDR) and low dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy procedures including patient set up, simulation, and treatment planning.
Participates in quality management in accordance with departmental policies, national guidelines, and accreditation standards.
Performs routine chart checks per departmental policy.
Participates in charge capture and generates documentation for billing in accordance with departmental policies.
Participates in clinical research for the development and implementation of new techniques in radiation therapy.
Participates in educational activities such as providing instruction and training to new staff members, physician residents, physicist residents, RTT trainees, and medical dosimetrist trainees.
Maintains an atmosphere of caring, concern, and support for patients, visitors, medical staff, and colleagues.
Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as directed by supervising medical physicists.
Adheres to high ethical standards in relation to patients, students, trainees, and colleagues.
Ensures accurate data transfer of patient and treatment plan information to clinical systems including but not limited to record and verify systems, imaging guidance systems, surface guidance systems, treatment delivery systems, and electronic medical record systems.

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is internationally recognized for its leadership in the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and is the region’s only comprehensive cancer center designated by the National Cancer Institute. As the preeminent institution in western Pennsylvania for the delivery of cancer care, the performance of basic, translational, and clinical research, and the education of the next generation of cancer researchers and physicians, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is exceptionally well-positioned to contribute to the global effort to reduce the burden of cancer.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Completion of a Medical Dosimetry educational program accredited by the Joint review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT)
Board certified by the Medical Dosimetrist Certification Board (MDCB).
Board eligible candidates must become board certified within two attempts in the first two consecutive years of employment.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

Certified Medical Dosimetrist (CMD) or board eligibility required.
Must maintain adequate CE credits to retain certification.
CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.
Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

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