The medical physicist is responsible for the appropriate use of the treatment planning system, including evaluating a treatment plan for the delivery of radiation treatment based on the radiation oncologist’s prescribed course of radiation therapy, ensuring that the patient will not lose important healthy organ function and that the radiation delivered will not affect healthy surrounding tissue. The medical physicist is responsible for the appropriate use of the electronic medical record, including maintaining an accurate record of treatment planning progress, and communication and documentation of relevant patient information. The medical physicist is responsible for the performance and documentation of quality assurance in the clinic, including software QA, hardware QA, and patient QA.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Calibrate therapy equipment in a manner suitable for accurate radiation dose delivery.

• Serve as the focal point for machine maintenance and repair

• Direct the determination of radiation dose distributions in patients undergoing treatment (i.e. computerized dosimetry planning or direct radiation measurement)

• Maintain proper records necessary for APEx, NRC, state, or other regulatory agencies

• Design and implement pertinent aspects of the quality management program that involve the use of external beam radiotherapy equipment

• Manage the medical physics service in a manner to meet or exceed established standards of practice consistent with the facility size and available resources

• Establish, develop, and monitor procedures for measuring the performance levels of equipment used in radiation oncology

• Evaluate new technologies and implement as needed, including acceptance testing of new equipment and treatment devices

• Consult with the radiation oncologists, as required, concerning patient doses and optimization of patient treatment plans and delivery

• Provide technical direction of radiation oncology staff as specified by the Director of Medical Physics

• A Master’s or Doctor’s degree in physics, biophysics, radiological physics, or health physics

• One year of full-time training in therapeutic radiological physics

• One year of full-time experience in a therapy facility including personal calibration and spot check of at least one teletherapy unit

About Tennessee Oncology Radiation Center

Established in 1976 by Dr. Stuart Spigel in Nashville, Tennessee Oncology’s mission remains unchanged: To provide access to high quality cancer care and the expertise of clinical research for all patients at convenient locations within their community and close to their home. To this day, our growing network of physicians and number of locations is based on this mission. In 2018, Tennessee Oncology joined OneOncology, a partnership of oncologists and industry leading experts driving the future of community-based cancer care in the United States, as a founding practice partner.

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