Mayo Clinic’s Radiation Oncology department in Rochester, Minnesota is seeking qualified applicants for a Proton Clinical Medical Physics position.  

No proton experience?

No problem!  We have a 5 month training program to bring you up to speed.

Not board certified?

We offer shadowing opportunities in our extensive photon clinic, a mock oral exam, and often study buddies, if desired.

About the job: Lots of variety, never bored.

• Clinical responsibilities include: SBRT and high dose treatments, breath hold and phase gated treatments, attending simulations, working closely with dosimetry through the planning process, and plan checks.
• Machine QA responsibilities are shared and much of the QA is performed by Medical Physicist Assistants, who also do the patient specific QA.
• Clinical projects are a part of this job and there is at least one of them calling your name.
• There are no research expectations for this clinical physics position. 
• Remote work is optional for a subset of our clinical coverages.

About the facility:

• The proton center contains a Hitachi synchrotron with 4 spot scanning gantries and a single fixed beam room. In the next couple years, an additional accelerator with two treatment rooms will be added to the facility.
• The proton center has 2 Siemen’s CT Simulation rooms, a GE MRI, and a designated anesthesia area.
• Treatment planning is done primarily with Eclipse and is supplemented with our in-house, Monte Carlo based software.

Who will you be working with?

• The physics division consists of 69 smiling faces, 22 of whom are proton physicists.

More about Mayo Clinic

• The Mayo Rochester campus is the largest and central location for the radiation oncology practice and is ranked #1 on the US News Best Hospitals Report.
• Mayo Clinic offers an excellent salary and benefits package. Additional perks include an onsite employee gym, back-up daycare for when your normal child care isn’t available, college scholarships for dependents, a pension plan, and more.

More about Rochester, MN

• Rochester has a population of 120,000 and is a family-oriented community.
• Winter (the elephant in the room) is cold and snowy but the snowplows are always ready and summer is delightful with average temperatures around 80 degrees.
• Minneapolis is a little over an hour away with all the big city offerings.
• Plenty of outdoor activities on the lakes, rivers and trails.

Board certified physicists should apply to job listing: 

• Proton Clinical Medical Physicist II (Job ID: 313753)

Physicists who are not yet board certified should apply to job listing:

• Proton Clinical Medical Physicist I (Job ID: 313752)

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