Senior Medical Physicist

Office Location
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
1201 W. University Drive
Human Resources
MASS Building 2 nd Floor
Edinburg, TX 78539

Edinburg:
Brownsville:
Office hours:
Monday-Friday
8:00a.m.

- 5:00p.m.

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College of Engineering & Computer Science: cecs

Robert

C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship: cobe

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Position Information

Posting Number

Posting Number SRGV
6800

Working Title

Working Title SENIOR MEDICAL PHYSICIST

Number of Vacancies

Number of Vacancies 1

Location

Location Edinburg, Texas

Department

Department School of Medicine / Clinical Affairs

FTE

FTE 1.0

FLSA

FLSA Exempt

Scope of Job

Provide medical physics clinical services to patient treatment using standard and advanced treatment techniques, perform treatment machine quality assurance including acceptance testing and commissioning, perform treatment planning, approve and implement technical procedures prior to clinical use, perform quality assurance for patient record dosimetric information, involvement in informatics development and direction.

Description of Duties

• Provides medical physics services for direct patient procedures.
• Performs the initial and continuing evaluation of radiation therapy treatment.
• Measures and characterizes medical radiation from radiation therapy treatment.
• Performs acceptance testing, evaluation and commissioning of equipment used for external beam therapy, brachytherapy, simulation, treatment-planning, and radiation detection; acceptance testing and evaluation of their associated computer systems, algorithms, data, and output.
• Participates in research activities related to radiation oncology, especially radiation therapy physics.
• Develops and evaluates, with the medical practitioner, the dosimetric component of patients’ treatment plans.
• Reviews of radiation oncology dosimetric information noted in patient records.
• Performs clinical research to advance the state of art of radiation therapy.
• Conducts and assists in clinical trials to test hypothesis-driven research/clinical issues.
• Conducts clinical dosimetry, image processing and treatment design studies to assess the merits of newly developed strategies.
• Applies statistical methods and image processing techniques to analyze and interpret the results.
• Creates and assists in creating scientific presentations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervision Received

General supervision from assigned supervisor.

Supervision Given

Direct supervision of assigned staff.

Required Education

M.S. or Ph.D. in Physics or Medical Physics (board certified) from an accredited University.

Preferred Education

Completion of 2 year medical physics residency program in radiation oncology.

Licenses/Certifications

• Certified in Therapeutic Radiological physics by the American Board of Radiology or in radiation oncology physics by the American Board of Medical Physics.
• Licensed in Texas or eligible for a Texas license.

Required Experience

Five (5) years of experience as a medical physicist.

Preferred Experience

N/A

Equipment

• Proficient in planning VMAT , IMRT , SBRT , and 3D plans.
• SPECIAL SKILLS ( TECHNICAL ):
  • At the professional staff level, knowledge infers an understanding of the fundamental principles…