The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Department of Radiology and Radiological Science has been awarded initial accreditation by CAMPEP for our Diagnostic Radiology Medical Physics Residency Program and is actively recruiting for a Diagnostic Medical Physics Resident. This is a two-year comprehensive post-graduate program designed to provide clinical training and experience in imaging physics and to prepare the residents for ABR certification and the independent practice of diagnostic radiological physics.  The primary focus of this residency is clinical training, clinical experience, and educational activities.  Consistent with these standards, the objective of our program is to instill into its graduates a level of competency sufficient to engage in independent clinical medical physics practice. Anticipated start date is July 1, 2023 or shortly thereafter.

Duties/Responsibilities

The resident will be expected to successfully rotate through nine focused rotations in the areas of General Radiology, Fluoroscopy, Interventional Radiology/Cardiac Cath Imaging, Mammography, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Imaging Informatics while working under the guidance of the medical physics team. This will consist of conducting system performance evaluations and quality control, safety and compliance tests, including vendor recommendations, for all modalities under supervision of a qualified physicist and become familiar with institutional policies, state and federal statutes. The resident will be expected to become proficient enough to work autonomously during the second year of the program. The selected candidate will be expected to attend and actively participate in monthly sessions with all three ABR certified medical physicists and other interested parties (radiologists, radiology residents, technologists, administrators) to share and discuss issues and events related to medical physics, and complete special and/or research projects as directed by either rotation preceptor or program director.

The successful candidate must meet all requirements defined by CAMPEP for entering a residency program and must submit proof of completion of all graduate degree requirements before beginning the program.

The resident will be engaged in all aspects of clinical medical physics in support of imaging quality assurance and safety. The MUSC residency webpage is: https://medicine.musc.edu/departments/radiology/education-programs/non-acgme-residency-program/medical-physics-residency-program

Education:

A successful candidate must either:

1. Have graduated from a CAMPEP-accredited MS or PhD (preferred) graduate program, or Possess a PhD in physics or related discipline and have completed a CAMPEP-accredited certificate program, or
2. Possess a PhD in physics or related discipline and have satisfactorily completed courses equivalent to those in a CAMPEP-accredited certificate program, as determined by the CAMPEP Graduate Education Program Review Committee (GEPRC).

About Medical University of South Carolina

The MUSC Campus is located in Charleston, South Carolina, and is easily accessible to all the amenities that a regional hub city has to offer. MUSC is an academic health system, an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. As the clinical health system of the Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC Health is dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care available, while training generations of competent, compassionate health care providers to serve the people of South Carolina and beyond. Comprising some 1,600 beds, more than 100 outreach sites, the MUSC College of Medicine, the physicians’ practice plan, and nearly 275 telehealth locations, MUSC Health owns and operates eight hospitals situated in Charleston, Chester, Florence, Lancaster and Marion counties. In 2019, for the fifth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named MUSC Health the No. 1 hospital in South Carolina.

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