Medical Physicist

About the Role

Reports directly to the Medical Physicist-in-Chief or Associate Chief Medical Physicist, Department of Radiation Oncology, for clinical practice and administrative duties. In collaboration with other professional and support staff, responsibilities include establishing protocols for accurate patient dosimetry, measuring and characterizing radiation, consulting with physicians on treatment planning, and developing and directing radiotherapy and radiosurgery quality assurance programs. Conducts and participates in departmental research, development projects, and teaching activities for residents and students. Workload division is approximately 75% clinical, 20% research and teaching, and 5% administrative.

Employees are expected to role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, as well as demonstrate core Success Factors: Instill Trust and Value Differences, Patient and Community Focus, and Collaborate.

Responsibilities

• Develops equipment specifications for radiation therapy and radiosurgery equipment, brachytherapy, simulation, and radiation detection.
• Plans and specifies shielding designed to protect patients, workers, and the general public from radiation; evaluates installed shielding.
• Develops procedures and participates in the initial acceptance, evaluation, and commissioning of equipment used for external-beam therapy, radiosurgery, brachytherapy, simulation, treatment planning, and radiation detection, including associated computer systems, algorithms, data, and output.
• Develops procedures and participates in the continuing evaluation of radiation therapy and radiosurgery treatment, brachytherapy, simulation, and radiation detection equipment.
• Provides evidence of compliance with regulatory and accreditation agency rules and recommendations for equipment used in radiation therapy and radiosurgery.
• Develops and/or evaluates, in collaboration with physicians, policies and procedures related to the appropriate therapeutic use of radiation.
• Develops and/or evaluates, in collaboration with physicians, imaging techniques for simulation, treatment planning, and treatment delivery for radiotherapy and radiosurgery procedures.
• Develops and/or evaluates, in collaboration with physicians and dosimetrists, dosimetric plans for patients undergoing radiation therapy.
• Reviews radiation oncology and radiosurgery dosimetry information noted in patient records.
• Participates in the management of staff responsible for treatment planning, machine maintenance and repair, and other physics support staff.
• Develops other medical applications of physics to safely carry out radiotherapy and radiosurgery procedures.
• Performs research, prepares scientific publications, and pursues funding to support the academic development of medical physics at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University Medical School.
• Provides radiation oncology physics teaching for physicians, medical physicists, residents, and other departmental support staff and students.
• Participates in scientific meetings and professional societies to exchange information and enhance professional expertise.
• Provides institutional consultation for program development in radiation oncology.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required.

Requirements

• MS or PhD degree in physics or medical physics.
• Appropriate Board Certification.
• Qualifications sufficient for a faculty appointment at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor.
• Interpersonal skills to teach and supervise students and interact with professional and support staff.
• Knowledge and skills to provide care considering the aging process, human development stages, and cultural patterns at each step of the radiotherapy process.
• Demonstrated experience working with medical physicists, radiation oncologists, and other healthcare professionals in a Radiation Oncology Department.

Work Environment

• Exposed to low-level radiation; wears a badge to monitor exposure.
• Able to maneuver and set up dosimetric phantoms for radiation measurements.
• Travels to sites of meetings and conferences.

Provides supervision and consultation to other physicists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists as required.

Pay

$179,670.40 - $296,462.40

Schedule

Monday - Friday, day shift (variable 0600-1800), 8 hours daily.