Medical Physicist

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The Community - Baltimore, MD
Baltimore is the second-largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States and a major manufacturing center. After a decline in major manufacturing, industrialization and rail transportation, Baltimore shifted to a service-oriented economy, with the Johns Hopkins Hospital (founded 1889), and Johns Hopkins University (founded 1876), now the city's top two employers.

With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed "a city of neighborhoods ". Famous residents have included the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass and H.L. Mencken, jazz musician James "Eubie " Blake, singer Billie Holiday and baseball player Babe Ruth. In the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner, later the American national anthem, in the city. Almost a quarter of the jobs in the Baltimore region are in science, technology, engineering and math, in part attributed to its extensive undergraduate and graduate schools.

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Airport Information: Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) serves as a major hub for the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Located just nine miles south of downtown Baltimore and 32 miles northeast of Washington, D.C., BWI offers convenient access to both cities. With 73 domestic and international destinations.

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About the Facility - Baltimore VAMC
The Baltimore VA Medical Center is the acute medical and surgical care facility for the VA Maryland Health Care System and offers a full range of inpatient, outpatient and primary care services. The Baltimore VA Medical Center serves at the neurosurgery referral center for the VA Capitol Health Care Network. The medical center's patient-friendly design features plant-filled atriums, natural light from overhead skylights and comfortable patient rooms and waiting areas. Located next to the University of Maryland Medical Center with a walkway connecting the two facilities, the medical center maintains an active affiliation with the university in the sharing of staff, resources, and technology.

Facility Address: 10 North Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

Medical Physicist - RESPONSIBILITIES (listed are included but not limited to)

• The Medical Physicist shall primarily and professionally engage in the design, optimization and technical evaluation of radiation treatment plans as well as ensuring precise and accurate radiation dose delivery. Will be responsible for radiation protection of patients and staff.
• Shall be available, when necessary, for consultation with the Radiation Oncologist and to provide advice or direction to technical staff when radiation treatments are being planned or when patients are being treated. Where possible, should be present to observe and/or help supervise complicated simulations and/or treatment set-ups. Must be present at the machine during patient setup for SBRT/SRS and IGRT. Must be present at all times during Sterotactic Procedures (SRS, SRT, SBRT)
• Calculations: The board-certified medical physicist shall specify and monitor method(s) to calculate Mus or treatment times and ensure independent review(s) of such calculations. Any individual having appropriate training and experience may perform the initial calculation(s).
• Chart Review: shall develop and maintain a method for the weekly and systematic review of the charts of all patients under radiation treatment. All methods shall be approved by the VA Chief of Staff or designee. Shall perform a final chart review at the end of the course of radiation treatment to confirm that the prescribed dose has been delivered, and to document that the total prescribed dose has been delivered.
• Dosimetry: The modeling of radiation Beams for either planning or documentation purposes is generally performed with the aid of a treatment planning computer system. The board-certified medical physicist is responsible for data input into the planning system, which should be based upon measured beam data for the radiation beams in question, and for output from the planning system(s).
• Shall provide information on specification and selection in support of the VA's acquisition of radiation producing machines, accessories, and computerized treatment of planning systems in consultation with the NROP office. Shall also provide information to VA staff on timing of required maintenance of this equipment. Shall. Evaluate all equipment for continued utility, appropriateness, reliable performance, age, and condition and make recommendations to VA staff regarding practical lifespan, obsolescence, and replacement.
• Specialized equipment: the medical physicist shall determine the need for, specify, and have access to do symmetry and treatment planning equipment including, but not limited to, the following:
  • Measurement instruments to calibrate all treatment equipment and patient monitoring devices. Such instruments shall include ionization chambers/electrometers used as local standards and field instruments, readout devices, constancy check instruments, and phantoms.
  • Computerized treatment planning systems.
  • Computerized water phantom system with appropriate ionization chambers and diodes.
  • Film densitometry system.
  • Patient dose monitoring systems (e.g., Diodes and thermoluminescent dosimeters).
• Consultation: as needed, medical physicists shall provide advice and consultation, to VA and 3 rd party clinical engineers, for the operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the VA radiation oncology's linear accelerators and CT simulation equipment, all their relevant accessories and the computerized network interconnectivity; record and verification systems.

Medical Physicist Qualifications

• Education: Must have a Master's degree in Medical Physics
• Must have at least 3 years of experience
  • Performing QA procedures
  • Experience in Therapeutic Medical Physics in a healthcare system that is ACR or APEx certified
  • Experience with Varian Linear Accelerators: TrueBeam with Brain Lab Accessories following standards of TG-142
  • Experience with Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) including Cone Beam CT
  • Experience with Eclipse treatment planning system; and ARIA record and verify system, including the following treatment modalities: 2D/3D Conformal, SRS, SRT, SBRT, and IMRT/VMAT
  • Experience IMRT QA: MApCheck (or equivalent)
  • Experience Client Discovery CT Simulator (or equivalent)
  • Experience using Superficial X-ray Machine
  • Successfully performed one acceptance testing on a linear accelerator
  • Successfully performed one commission of a linear accelerator for a treatment planning system
• Board Certified in Medical Physics or Therapeutic Medical Physics by the American Board of Radiology.

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