Medical Physicist

• 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. Demonstrates compliance with Code of Conduct and compliance policies and takes action to resolve compliance questions or concerns and report suspected violations
  
• Performs all physics responsibilities for the radiation therapy department 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 TG51 protocol. Maintains NIST traceable calibrations on all ionization chambers and electrometers used for absolute calibration.
  
• Adjust 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.
  
• Performs other duties as assigned
  

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