Physics Assistant
UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX4d • Onsite
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Physics Assistant, Radiation Oncology - Medical Physics & Engineering
UT Southwestern Medical Center•Dallas, TX
•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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
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Based on current job postings on Teal, the average Medical Physics Assistant salary in the US is approximately $92,000 per year, with a typical range of $66,000 to $112,000.
