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Job Objective:
Supports Radiation Oncology clinical and equipment QA program. Responsible for assuring the delivery of high quality radiation therapy through participation in linear accelerator quality assurance, treatment planning, and consultation in accordance with AAPM standards. Responsible for communicating with physicians, radiation therapist, dosimetrists, office personnel and nurses as needed to improve and excel at patient care in radiation therapy. Provides technical support and skills for adoption of new technology and is continually looking at opportunities for improving the delivery of physics and dosimetry support within the department. Assures a high level of treatment delivery by maintaining quality assurance and calibration procedures for all radiation devices according to accepted protocols and standards of practice. Responsible for physics treatment planning and radiation safety.
Job Description:
Education:
Required: Master of Science or Ph.D. in Medical Physics or related field
Licensure/Certification:
Required: Certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics by the ABR or ABMP; American Heart Association BLS; California Therapeutic Calibration Physicist (TCP) and Radioactive Materials License (RML) required within six (6) months of hire into position
Experience:
Required: Two (2) years of experience in medical physics including completed residency from a CAMPED accredited medical physics residency program
Essential Responsibilities:
- Demonstrates compliance with Code of Conduct and compliance policies, and takes action to resolve compliance questions or concerns and report suspected violations
- Complies with NRC and CDPH regulations; adheres to institutional policies and procedures.
- Performs all physics responsibilities for EMC radiation therapy departments which requires knowledge of an advanced field of science acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study specific to radiation physics.
- Reviews patient charts on a daily and weekly basis. Verifies total delivered radiation dose in ARIA.
- Notes treatment overrides and outstanding dose action points and follows up, completes electronic chart check in ARIA and charges continuing medical physics.
- Calibrates therapy linear accelerators according to the AAPM TG-
- Maintains NIST traceable calibrations on all ionization chambers and electrometers used for absolute calibration.
- Determines beam quality for both photon and electron beams. Measures accelerator output using correct set up geometry, correcting for variation in air pressure, phantom temperature and beam quality.
- Adjusts accelerator dose integrator boards to keep output within specifications.
- Performs monthly and annual quality assurance tests on medical linear accelerators according to AAPM protocols.
- Trains and supervises physicists and dosimetrists who work in and/or rotate through the departments.
- Coordinates, reviews and recommends action on maintenance contracts and works with Varian on upgrades and equipment needs.
- Oversees and integrates with Information Systems on all software and treatment planning modalities.
Essential Skils:
- Ability to perform routine maintenance accelerator duties
- Competency in treatment planning for electrons, 3D CRT such as breast and lung, IMRT/VMAT such as Prostate, Anal, H&N, and SRS/SBRT such as Prostate, Lung and Spine
- Staying current with best practices that conform to recommendation from AAPM, ACR, ASTRO and other professional organizations
- Ability to plan for special treatment procedures such as hyper arc, SBRT, SRS/SRT
- VMAT (Volumetric modulated arc therapy) Treatment planning, prostate, head/neck, breast, pancreases, brain, etc.
- Ability to conduct quality assurance on IMRT and MLCs
- Ability to convey complex ideas and facilitate cooperation among members of the Radiation Oncology team
- Ability to innovative
- HDR Brachytherapy
- Ability to conduct weekly chart checks, final chart close outs
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Strong knowledge of medical physics practice in a clinical environment; familiar with Federal and California radiation safety, and regulatory requirements
- Ability to communicate complex ideas and facilitate work group cooperation amongst physics, physicians, dosimetry, sim techs, radiation techs, etc.
- Ability to calibrate linear accelerators
