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Associate Medical Physicist

Setup Enterprise
Full-time
On-site
United States
Science & Research
Description

Inova Center for Personalized Health is looking for a dedicated Associate Medical Physicist to join the team. This role is Full-Time Monday through Friday Day Shift. Sign on bonus eligible 

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation. 

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.

• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.

• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.

• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.

 




Job Responsibilities

 

  • Develops and maintains contacts with physicists in other practices. Confers with physicians throughout Inova systems regarding patient dosages, regarding equipment evaluation and quality assurance.
  • Cooperates and adhere to regulatory agencies (state and federal) in demonstrating compliance with applicable rules and recommendations.
  • Confers with vendors or equipment used in practice (i.e. linear accelerators, MRI, CT etc.) concerning purchase specifications, acceptance rules and regulations.
  • Discusses with patients and other members of the public radiation exposure with medical procedures.
  • Confers with physicians in subspecialties in all patient uses in ionizing radiation.
  • Provides Medical Physics coverage as deemed appropriate to the sub specialty (i.e.. Radiation Therapy, Cardiac Cath.).
  • Confers with engineering concerning radiation shield design for all area of the hospital which utilize ionizing radiation.
  • Oversees acceptance testing of new or renovated medical equipment and imaging network.
  • Performs calculations and measurements to insure new treatment imaging techniques and to investigate in greater detail established techniques.
  • Reviews new calibration protocols and verify by experiment and computation the impact they will have on the clinical application.
  • Investigates and evaluate new equipment and improvements in existing equipment so as to reduce costs and downtime, while increasing efficiency and accuracy for there application.
  • Intercompares data with other radiation therapy institutions; Stays abreast of clinical and dosimetric literature in sub specialty.
  • Attends any hospital assigned committees (i.e. Radiation Safety Committee).
  • Maintains professional working relationship with the pertinent Department Directors and the Medical Directors; Develops and maintains contacts with physicists in other practices.
  • May perform additional duties as assigned.



Additional Requirements

  • Work Schedule - Full-Time Day Shift Monday through Friday 
  • Master's Degree in Physical Science 
  • Certification - With time in work experience is eligible to take American board of radiology certification 
  • License - Applicant is eligible to submit to become a VA State inspector in the subject specialty. 

     


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