Associate Medical Physicist
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Inova Center for Personalized Health is looking for a dedicated Associate Medical Physicist to join the team. This role will be full-time Monday through Friday and offers a sign on bonus.
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.).
- 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:
- Certification - With time in work, experience, is eligible to take the American Board of Radiology certification.
- Licensure - Applicant is eligible to submit to become a VA State inspector in the subject specialty.
- Education - Master's in Physical Science