Junior Medical Physicist-Radiation Oncology @ Medanta Gurgaon

Role & responsibilities Calibration of Radiation Oncology Equipment . Assures that all treatment machines and radiation sources are correctly calibrated according to accepted protocols. Acceptance Testing and QA . Conducts acceptance testing, commissioning, calibration, and periodic QA of therapy equipment. Measurement and Analysis of Beam Data. Measures important components of the commissioning phase include not only the generation of beam data for all energies, modes, and isotope sources, but also evaluation of the quality of the data and its appropriateness for treating different disease sites. Tabulation of Beam Data for Clinical Use . Assures that the beam and source data are correctly entered into the treatment planning system Establishment of Dose Calculation Procedures . Establishes the dose calculation procedures that are used throughout the department-and to assure their accuracy. Establishment of Treatment-planning and Treatment Procedures. Establishes treatment-planning and treatment procedures along with the radiation oncologist and other members of the treatment planning team, the medical physicist is responsible for. This includes both the technical aspects of the process and the flow of procedures entailed in the process. Treatment Planning . Responsible for the specification, acceptance testing, commissioning, and QA of treatment planning systems. In addition, the physicist performs or oversees the determination of radiation dose distributions in patients undergoing treatment (i.e., computerized treatment planning or direct radiation measurements). This includes consultation with the radiation oncologist and the evaluation and optimization of radiation therapy for specific patients. Daily QA. Performs daily QA for the treatment machines (Linear Accelerator). Establishment of QA Procedures . Performs a yearly review of the appropriate sections of the policies and procedures manual. Therapy Equipment Maintenance . Conducts regular maintenance of the treatment machines is along with the RTTs is to be carried out by the Medical physicist. Education. Provides education and training in medical physics for physicians, radiation therapists, dosimetrists, nurses, medical technical assistants, as well as student physicists and technical staff. Any other duties assigned by the Chairperson-Division of Radiation Oncology . Preferred candidate profile Candidate must be M.SC in medical physics. Candidate must have experience between 1 to 5 yrs in radiation oncology department of NABH/JCI Hospital.