Medical Physicist
US-ID-Twin Falls
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Req #: 107217
Type: Full-Time
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Overview: St. Luke's Health System in Twin Falls, Idaho is looking for a full-time Board Certified/Board Eligible Medical Physicist to work with our highly collaborative and patient-focused team at St. Luke's Cancer Institute. The selected individual will be joining a team of physicists and dosimetrists in an Aria/Eclipse environment with Varian TrueBeam linear accelerators. This role offers great work/life balance, retirement and health-care benefits, PTO, and sign-on and relocation bonuses. The Twin Falls team consists of a Chief of Physics, 2 physicians, 2 dosimetrists, 6 therapists and a therapist supervisor. While this position is based in Twin Falls, you will also be part of a larger group that is spread throughout the Boise area consisting of an additional 5 physicists, 9 dosimetrists and a dedicated IT support team. Twin Falls, Idaho offers the perfect blend of professional opportunity and outdoor enjoyment. While our community is a welcoming small town of about 60,000 residents, our Cancer Institute draws patients from across a large region, creating a thriving and dynamic program. People love Twin Falls for its easy access to world-class skiing, hiking, backpacking, and mountain biking, as well as blue skies, kayaking, boating, hunting, camping, natural hot springs and the list goes on. Here, work-life balance is more than a concept-it's a priority, so you can enjoy everything this incredible region has to offer. Responsibilities * Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols. * Ensures that all radiation safety requirements throughout the facility are met in collaboration with the hospital Radiation Safety Officer. * In coordination with other team members, develops and maintains a QA program. * Ensures that the beam and source data are accurate and correctly entered into the treatment planning system. * Establishes treatment planning and dose calculation procedures that are used throughout the department, and ensures their accuracy. * In consultation with the radiation oncologists and dosimetrists, oversees treatment planning and determination of radiation dose distributions in patients undergoing treatment. * Ensures policies and procedures contain proper elements of good radiation oncology practice, delivery of treatment, radiation safety, quality control, and regulatory compliance. * Releases a treatment machine into clinical service after maintenance, and documents that any alteration caused by the maintenance and repair schedule does not affect the accelerator performance or calibration. * Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. * Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols. Technologies * 1 TrueBeam * 1 Varian NTx with HDMLC - scheduled for replacement with a TrueBeam Edge in August 2026 * Flexitron Afterloader * BrainLab ExacTrac Patient Monitoring System * CT - Siemens OpenPro simulator with Varian RGSC 4DCT * SunNuclear IC Profiler-based monthly QA procedures * EPID Portal Dosimetry Software * Aria Record & Verify * Eclipse 18 * RapidPlan * MCO * GPU Computing * Brainlab * Cranial * Multimets * Radformation * AutoContour * ClearCheck * ClearCalc * EZFluence * QuickCode Qualifications * Education: Master's degree in Medical Physics or a related field * Experience: 2 years in radiation oncology physics setting or completion of CAMPEP accredited residency. * Licenses/Certifications: Certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics (TRP) or Therapeutic Medical Physics (TMP) by the ABR or ABMP Responsibilities: Along with the radiation oncologists and other members of the treatment-planning team, the Medical Physicist Senior is responsible for establishing treatment-planning and treatment procedures. * Ensures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols. * Helps define the specifications for the purchase of treatments unit(s) including external beam and brachytherapy units, therapy simulators, CT and ultrasound units, other therapy imaging systems, and treatment planning system. * Ensures that all radiation safety requirements throughout the facility are met. * In coordination with other team members, develops and maintains a QA program. * Ensures that the beam and source data are accurate and correctly entered into the treatment planning system. * Establishes treatment planning and dose calculation procedures that are used throughout the department, and ensures their accuracy. * In consultation with the radiation oncologists, performs or oversees treatment planning and determination of radiation dose distributions in patients undergoing treatment. * Ensures policies and procedures contain proper elements of good radiation oncology practice, delivery of treatment, radiation safety, quality control, and regulatory compliance. * Releases a treatment machine into clinical service after maintenance, and documents that any alteration caused by the maintenance and repair schedule does not affect the accelerator performance or calibration. * Serves as a department mentor/educator for all physics related duties * Independently performs all clinical physics duties. This includes special procedures, annual equipment calibration and treatment planning system beam modeling and verification. * Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. Qualifications: * Education: PhD in Medical Physics or related field or Master's degree in Medical Physics or related field with two additional years of experience in lieu of PhD * Experience: 5 years in radiation oncology physics setting or 3 years with CAMPEP accredited residency * Licenses/Certifications: Certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics (TRP) or Therapeutic Medical Physics (TMP) by the ABR or ABMP.
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