Certified Staff Physicist

MedStar Health is looking for aCertified StaffPhysicisttojoin our team atMedStarWashington Hospital Center! The ideal candidate will bea Certified Medical Physicist in therapeutic radiological physics.

As aPhysicist Staff Certified, youwill providequality assurance,benchmarking,and document operation of therapeutic radiologic equipment.Provides quality assurance and design of treatment plan parameters for external beam radiation therapy.

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Primary Duties:

• Assistsin brachytherapy treatments as needed. Attends and activelyparticipatesin journal club, chart rounds, quality assurance meetings, morbidity rounds and technical meetings and in addition to attend at leastonescientific meeting annually.

• Ensure that all charts are checked weekly and in good order.Ensure that calibrations are performed atappropriate intervalsfor each machine. Ensure that each computer plan is checked by manual calculation before the second treatment and is also signed by the physician and treatment therapist.

• Ensure that preventative maintenance program is followed for allappropriate equipment. Minimize down time by ensuring that all repairs are executed in a prompt manner and all physics checks involved are doneimmediatelyfollowing repairs. Follows all policies and procedures outlined in the organizational manual and makes recommendationsregardingimprovements in staff,equipment,and operations asappropriate.

• Maintain quality assurance programs for all major equipment daily, weekly,monthly,and annually.This program shouldcomply withall current quality assurance standards. 10. Maintains good radiation safety practices including practicing ALARA education on safe practices to personnel and keeping adequate safety records. Must be available for consultation at the request of the physician,dosimetrist, or therapist. Providetechnical assistancein the simulation or treatment rooms whenever needed.

• Performs initial calibration, testing and acceptance of all new equipment before releasing this equipment for clinicalutilization.Provideseducation to the technical staff on physics subjects when needed. To work on any special projects that are needed. Satisfies all current license requirements,renewals,or new license request and to follow the State of Maryland certification requirements and become a licensed state inspector. Verify or conduct calculations needed. Verify or conduct treatment planning as needed.

Qualifications:

• Master'sorDoctoraldegree in medical physics, Physics,orHealth Physics orEngineering plus 1 year specialty training in a postgraduate program for Medical Physics.

• 6 months clinical radiation therapy physicist experience.

• American Board of Radiology (ABR) CertificationorAmerican Board of Medical Physicists (ABMP) certification.