Physicist - Radiation Oncology - Sioux Falls
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- The employee will share duties with two Physicists and the Director of Radiation Oncology. The department has four radiation oncologists and four dosimetrists.
- This position will be involved in all aspects of modern image-guided external beam photon therapy and HDR brachytherapy. HDR experience and AMP status on a RAM license is preferred. Prior Aria/Eclipse experience is preferred.
- Support is also provided to a satellite Sanford Health clinic in Worthington, MN.
- Equipment consists of a TrueBeam STX, standard Truebeam, and a TomoTherapy Hi-Art. The TomoTherapy machine will be replaced by a Truebeam next year.
- Department software includes Aria/Eclipse 16.1 in a Citrix environment with all new FAS/GPU's, RapidArc, RapidPlan and MCO.
- Portal Dosimetry is used for routine IMRT QA. RadCalc, Velocity, and Radformation products (AutoContour, Clearcheck and EZFluence) are used.
- A GE Optima CT scanner is used for simulations.
- A Varian GammaMed Plus iX HDR unit is used to support the GYN brachytherapy practice.
- QA equipment is primarily Sun Nuclear with SunCHECK software. Equipment consists of 3DS and 1DS tanks, IC Profiler, DQA3, ArcCheck, and SRS MapCheck.
- Equipment for the Worthington site includes a Truebeam and Canon Aquilion CT scanner. The department software exists in the same environment as the Sioux Falls clinic.
- Master’s or PhD degree in physics, biophysics, medical physics or radiological physics.
- Certification in radiation oncology physics is preferred; however, consideration will be given to new grads and non-certified physicists who are board eligible.
- Acceptable certifications are: the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Physics, Therapeutic Medical Physics, or Therapeutic Radiologic Physics, American Board of Medical Physics, Canadian College of Physicist in Medicine or related certification board.
- Must obtain certification within 5 years of date of hire.