The Department of Radiation Oncology at Willis-Knighton Cancer Center in Shreveport, LA is recruiting to fill one Clinical Therapeutic Medical Physics Residency position.  Our CAMPEP-accredited residency is a 2-year program emphasizing hands-on clinical training within our clinical environment that includes the United States’ first clinically utilized installation of IBA’s Proteus®ONE proton therapy system. Along with routine clinical training and duties, residents complete twenty in-depth projects on topics vital to a successful medical physics career (e.g., commissioning, motion management, treatment planning, etc.). Residents also participate in clinical development and academic research. This training model provides both essential ABR certification exam curricula and critical clinical experience that are key to a successful career.

Willis-Knighton’s program is an affiliate of the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center hub-and-spoke program consortium, the first of its kind to be CAMPEP accredited.  Each affiliate independently selects candidates from a common applicant pool and provides most required resident training, while supplementing residents’ training experience with topics offered only at other affiliates (proton therapy at Willis-Knighton, MR-LINAC adaptive radiotherapy at Mary Bird, Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery at Mary Bird and UMMC, and LINAC SRS at Willis-Knighton, among others). This program strength allows for broader training than possible at any one institution alone. Residents at all affiliates are held to a common training standard through shared curricula and oral examination processes.

Requirements:  Applicants must have a M.S. or Ph.D. degree in Medical Physics or a related field and documented completion of all 6 graduate level didactic courses described in AAPM Report 197S, either from graduate training or completion of a CAMPEP-accredited certificate program. Willis-Knighton can only consider candidates having U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status (Green Card) for this position.

We participate in the MedPhys Match (www.natmatch.com/medphys) with NMS Code: 19311. Applications are only accepted via the AAPM Medical Physics Residency Application Program (www.aapm.org/mprap/). Note that, as one of the affiliates of the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center program consortium, Willis-Knighton Medical Physics Residency applications must be submitted to the Mary Bird Perkins RadOnc Physics Residency. All applicants are considered at all consortium sites independently. Applications must include a CV and three reference letters and be received by December 24, 2023. Selected candidates will be invited for virtual and in-person interviews in January and February of 2024. Additional information about the Willis-Knighton Cancer Center residency program can be found at www.wkhs.com/Cancer/Medical-Physics.aspx

About the Department of Radiation Oncology at Willis-Knighton Cancer Center:  Part of the Willis-Knighton Health System located within the Shreveport-Bossier area of Northwest Louisiana, our mission is to continuously improve the health and well-being of the people we serve. While part of a large system comprised of 5-hospitals (1256-beds), multiple specialty and imaging centers, and even a senior living community, among other elements; all radiation therapy is performed in the Department of Radiation Oncology at a single location, the Willis-Knighton Cancer Center, located off Interstate 20 just west of the I-20/I-49 interchange. Our department is home to 5 full-time faculty physicists, 5 physicians, 3 dosimetrists, and 2 medical physics residents. Our facility operates an IBA Proteus®ONE proton therapy unit, as well as two Elekta Versa HD linear accelerators (one routinely performing BrainLab, ExacTrac-guided, stereotactic radiosurgery), a Radixact unit, an Elekta Flexitron HDR afterloader, one Philips big-bore RT-CT simulator, a Samsung/NeuroLogica BodyTom® (portable, full-body, 32-slice CT scanner), and one Philips Ingenia MR-RT simulator. We use Mosaiq as our oncology information system, RayStation for most external beam treatment planning, BrainLab Elements for SRS, and Oncentra for all HDR brachytherapy. Our CT scanner and all LINACs are equipped with C-RAD solutions for patient positioning, motion monitoring, and respiratory gating.  Patient volume is approximately 75 patients per day across all portions of a broad demographic spectrum that comprises the population of the ArkLaTex region.