We are inviting applications for the Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program in Radiation Oncology Physics for the academic year beginning 7/1/2025. This is a CAMPEP-accredited therapy program and is jointly administered by the Departments of Radiation Oncology of three major Harvard Medical School teaching affiliates in Boston: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Our residency is structured as a three-year training program which includes an initial year of research, followed by two years of clinical training. We accept two residents per year. Our program is intended for candidates with doctoral degrees in medical physics, physics, and related physical sciences or engineering who are interested in careers as medical physicists in radiation oncology. Completion of a CAMPEP degree is not required for admission to our program. The program provides both research and hands-on clinical training in all aspects of radiation oncology physics. Clinical training takes place on a rotating basis among the three academic centers as well in a rotation at one of several affiliated community hospitals.
The residency program includes a full CAMPEP-accredited Certificate Program, which allows the core medical physics courses to be completed during the residency for residents who have not completed a CAMPEP certificate or degree. Further information on the CAMPEP course requirements is available at campep.org/ProspectiveApplicants.asp.
Our program participates in the MedPhys Match (www.natmatch.com/medphys/), and candidates must register for the Match and apply through the AAPM Medical Physics Residency Application Program (aapm.org/mprap). The application deadline for our program is 12/3/2024. Inquiries can be sent to hmsmedphys@partners.org.
Please visit our website for further information regarding the entrance requirements for our program: harvardmedphys.org. Select candidates will be invited to participate in an initial round of remote videoconference interviews in December. Finalists will be invited to a remote interview on February 6th or 7th, 2025.
Facilities and Equipment:
Residents are mentored and supervised in research and clinical training by a wide variety of experts in the field, including faculty members, clinical physicists, physicians, dosimetrists, therapists, and engineers. Our training resources include an extensive array of equipment and facilities: state-of-the-art linear accelerators for IMRT, VMAT, SRS, SBRT, IGRT, and CBCT, two proton facilities, MR-linac, two Ethos adaptive therapy machines, dedicated stereotactic facilities, Cyberknife, dedicated image-guided brachytherapy facilities, IORT, 4D-CT, 4D-PET, and MRI simulation and imaging facilities.
Employer and Environment:
The Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program is supported by three major radiation oncology departments in the Boston area: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Successful applicants will be appointed at Harvard Medical School and Harvard University. There are additional academic resources available for further support and collaboration within the Boston vicinity as well as in other locations across the country and internationally.
Our hospitals are equal opportunity employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran or active military status, marital status, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law.
The Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program is a three year residency program supported by three major radiation oncology departments in the Boston area: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, all affiliated with Harvard Medical School. There are additional academic resources available for further support and collaboration within the Boston vicinity as well as in other locations across the country and internationally.
Our hospitals are equal opportunity employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran or active military status, marital status, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law.
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