Physics Assistant, Radiation Oncology - Medical Physics & Engineering

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Physics Assistant will provide support as a member of the Medical Physics and Engineering Division in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern. The Physics Assistant will create adaptive treatment documents, including treatment plans; perform quality assurance (QA) of adaptive treatment delivery; and analyze data resulting from adaptive therapy treatments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Engineering, Mathematics, or Physical Science

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree
• Programming experience

Responsibilities

• Locates from PACS and simulator systems patient CT/MR/PET images and then imports them into the treatment planning system.
• Registers MR, PET and/or CT images together for treatment planning.
• Prepares treatment plan documents and billing notes and uploads them into the record and verify system.
• Recalculates adaptive plans post treatment to provide a record of the benefit of plan adaption.
• Creates adaptive treatment documents and enters them in the record and verify system to support adaptive therapy billing.
• Records, collates and analyzes timing statistics for each step of adaptive treatments in order to find areas to reduce patient in-vault time.
• Performs patient specific quality assurance of treatment plans, pre-delivery for initial plans, and post-delivery for adaptive plans.
• Analyses and accumulates dose from each fraction of adaptive plans to provide an estimate of the delivered treatment to for the attending physician's review.
• Conducts mechanical and image quality tests for quality assurance of linear accelerators or simulators.
• Undertakes accelerator commissioning tasks as assigned.
• Conducts QA device commissioning including determining tests required, measurements and commissioning report.
• Inventories quality assurance equipment (solid water, phantoms, ion chambers, electrometers, thermometers, barometers etc).
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100%25 coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level