Medical Physicist - Radiation Oncology

Trinity Health•Grand Rapids, MI

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The successful candidate will join a team of 3 medical physicists, 3 dosimetrists and 3 radiation oncologists in a department with growing SRS/SBRT and HDR programs. Equipment includes a CyberKnife M6, Radixact, Flexitron HDR, Trubeam and Siemens Confidence CT-Sim. Treatment planning software includes Precision for both CyberKnife and Radixact, Eclipse 15.5 for Truebeam and Oncentra for HDR. MIM is used for complex registration and retreatment evaluation, Sun Nuclear DoseCHECK for secondary MU verification, and a full suite of Sun Nuclear QA tools.

Requirements

Master of Science degree in Medical Physics
Board certified, or board eligible, by The American Board of Radiology or The American Board of Medical Physics. If board eligible, board exam shall be successfully passed within 18 months of hire.

Nice To Haves

PhD in Medical Physics

Responsibilities

Assists in planning for resource allocation with the rest of the radiation oncology team, including the following: equipment usage, selection and replacement, staffing requirements, budget preparation, and review of departmental policies and procedures.
Responsible for performance specification, acceptance testing, and commissioning of new equipment.
Performs calibration of the sources and maintenance of all information necessary for their appropriate use.
Develops and maintains a quality assurance program for all treatment modalities, localization procedures, and computational equipment and programs to assure the patients receive prescribed doses and dose distributions, within acceptable degrees of accuracy and according to the recommendations of AAPM task group reports, industry standards, accrediting organization, and federal and state regulations.