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Radiation Physicist - Fairfax Virginia
Company: Inova Health System Location: Fairfax, Virginia
Posted On: 05/04/2024
As a Radiation Physicist, you will be responsible for internal contacts, conducting investigations and fact finding. Job Responsibilities - Collaborates with physicians in subject specialty regarding all patient uses of ionizing radiation.
- Attends any hospital assigned committee such as the Radiation Safety Committee.
- Maintains a professional working relationship with department directors and Medical Directors.
- Provides Medical Physics coverage as deemed appropriate to the subject specialty (i.e. Radiation Therapy, Cardiac Cath, etc.).
- Collaborates with Engineering concerning radiation shield design for all areas of the hospital which utilize ionizing radiation.
- Oversees the acceptance of testing for new or renovated medical equipment and imaging networks.
- Performs calculations/measurements to institute new treatment/imaging techniques and to investigate established techniques in greater detail.
- Reviews new calibration protocols and verifies, by experiment and computation, the impact they will have on clinical applications.
- Investigates/evaluates new equipment and improvements to existing equipment so as to reduce costs/downtime while increasing efficiency/accuracy.
- Compares data with other radiation therapy institutions.
- Stays abreast of clinical and dosimetry literature in subject specialty.
- Stays abreast of policies, plans and personal practices per subject specialty.
- Develops and maintains contacts with physicists in other practices.
- Confers with physicians throughout Inova Health System regarding patient dosages, equipment evaluation and quality assurance.
- Cooperates and adheres to state/federal regulatory agencies in demonstrating compliance with applicable rules and recommendations.
- Confers with vendors of equipment used in practice (e.g. Linear accelerators, MRI, CT etc.) concerning purchase specifications, acceptance testing, proper quality assurance and routine maintenance.
- Maintains dosimetry in accordance with applicable rules and regulations.
- Discusses radiation exposure as it relates to medical procedures with patients and other members of the public.
- Delivers physics lectures to Inova personnel concerning radiation matters.
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