Medical Physicist

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Job Description

Summary:

Our Ohio Health Physics team is expanding! We are looking to add a new Physics position to support our growth of an additional care site. The successful candidate will work as an integral part of the Ohio Health Radiation Oncology team. This job will be primarily working at our care sites within Columbus, OH, with the option to work from home one day per week.

We are certainly open to considering Residency candidates.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

· Provide clinical Physics support to our care sites, including daily operations, routine quality assurance activities, support for SBRT, SRS, HDR, and cardiac brachytherapy, chart checks, support department adherence to policies and procedures, and all aspects of participation in clinical trials.
· Participation in the development and implementation of new treatment techniques and new technologies.
· Although each of us has a home base and a primary care site for which we are responsible, our large group provides collaborative cross-coverage support for the team. We also provide rotating weekly chart check coverage remotely.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree
• A  board certified or board eligible in Therapeutic Radiological Physics
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work well in a large team environment SYSTEMWIDE EQUIPMENT:
· Linear Accelerators: combination of Varian iX, True Beams, True Beam Novalis w HDMLC, and Halcyon
· EMR/TPS:
Aria v16.0, Eclipse, EZFluence, MIM, Velocity, Insightive
· CT’s: GE RT Discovery with MAR, contrast, and 4

DCT capabilities
· HDR: 2 Bravos units – Riverside and Grant, both primarily treating GYN cancers
· SRS: offered at 3 care sites - Riverside, Grant, and Delaware. Use of Brain Lab Elements and Exac Trac/Exac Trac Dynamic. Treatments include single lesion, multimet (single iso), trigem, AVM. RTSafe gel dosimetry used for annual end to end testing
· SBRT: free breathing, gated, triggered imaging, and breath-hold treatment delivery techniques
· Intravascular cardiac brachytherapy (Novoste system)
· TBI (VMAT technique)
· MU second check software:
Mobius and Clear Calc
· Range of Physics equipment: SRS Map Check, Arc Check, DQA3, IC Profiler, MMWL, Wellhoffer scanning tanks, Quasar, Dose Lab for TG-142 monthly and annual QA analysis

ABOUT US:

Our Physics team currently consists of 14 board certified Physicists, 1 Medical Physics Assistant, and 15 dosimetrists. We are responsible for covering 10 different care sites across central and eastern Ohio. Ohio Health can offer a competitive salary based on the AAPM’s 2024 Professional Salary Survey. Columbus, Ohio is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation, and for good reason!

The city is able to offer the perks of an urban city with the ease of commute and suburban tranquility of a smaller city.

Responsibilities And Duties:

Provide evidence of compliance of equipment for radiation therapy treatment, brachytherapy, simulation and radiation detection, with regulatory and accreditation agency rules and recommendations. Measure and characterize medical radiation from radiation therapy treatment, brachytherapy, and simulation equipment prior to clinical utilization. Perform 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 Develop and/or evaluate with the medical practitioner, the dosimetric component of patients treatment plans-Review radiation oncology dosimetry information noted in patient records.

-Develop and manage a comprehensive Quality Management Program that monitors, evaluates and optimizes radiation oncology processes.

-Develop and/or evaluate a comprehensive clinical…