MedStar Health · 4 weeks ago
Certified Staff Physicist
Washington, DC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
1+ years expMedStar Health is looking for a Physicist Staff Certified to join their team at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. The ideal candidate will provide quality assurance, benchmarking, and documentation of therapeutic radiologic equipment, ensuring compliance with quality assurance standards and maintaining safety practices.
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Responsibilities
Assists in brachytherapy treatments as needed
Attends and actively participates in journal club, chart rounds, quality assurance meetings, morbidity rounds and technical meetings and in addition to attend at least one scientific meeting annually
Ensure that all charts are checked weekly and in good order
Ensure that calibrations are performed at appropriate intervals for each machine
Ensure that each computer plan is checked by manual calculation before the second treatment and is also signed by the physician and treatment therapist
Ensure that preventative maintenance program is followed for all appropriate equipment
Minimize down time by ensuring that all repairs are executed in a prompt manner and all physics checks involved are done immediately following repairs
Follows all policies and procedures outlined in the organizational manual and makes recommendations regarding improvements in staff, equipment, and operations as appropriate
Maintain quality assurance programs for all major equipment daily, weekly, monthly, and annually
This program should comply with all current quality assurance standards
Maintains good radiation safety practices including practicing ALARA education on safe practices to personnel and keeping adequate safety records
Must be available for consultation at the request of the physician, dosimetrist, or therapist
Provide technical assistance in the simulation or treatment rooms whenever needed
Performs initial calibration, testing and acceptance of all new equipment before releasing this equipment for clinical utilization
Provides education to the technical staff on physics subjects when needed
To work on any special projects that are needed
Satisfies all current license requirements, renewals, or new license request and to follow the State of Maryland certification requirements and become a licensed state inspector
Verify or conduct calculations needed
Verify or conduct treatment planning as needed
Qualification
Required
Master's or Doctoral degree in medical physics, Physics, or Health Physics or Engineering plus 1 year specialty training in a postgraduate program for Medical Physics
6 months clinical radiation therapy physicist experience
American Board of Radiology (ABR) Certification or American Board of Medical Physicists (ABMP) certification
Company
MedStar Health
MedStar Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$29MKey Investors
American Medical AssociationAgency for Healthcare Research and QualityA. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation
2023-06-21Grant
2022-09-27Grant· $2M
2020-07-03Grant· $27M
Leadership Team
David Mayer
Executive Director MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety Quality and Safety CEO Patient Safety Mo
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