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As an associate medical physicist, you will be responsible for internal contacts, conducting investigations and fact finding.
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Develops and maintains contacts with physicists in other practices. Confers with physicians throughout Inova systems regarding patient dosages, regarding equipment evaluation and quality assurance.
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Cooperates and adhere to regulatory agencies (state and federal) in demonstrating compliance with applicable rules and recommendations.
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Confers with vendors or equipment used in practice (i.e. linear accelerators, MRI, CT etc.) concerning purchase specifications, acceptance rules and regulations.
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Discusses with patients and other members of the public radiation exposure with medical procedures.
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Confers with physicians in subspecialties in all patient uses in ionizing radiation.
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Provides Medical Physics coverage as deemed appropriate to the sub specialty (i.e.. Radiation Therapy, Cardiac Cath.).
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Confers with engineering concerning radiation shield design for all area of the hospital which utilize ionizing radiation.
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Oversees acceptance testing of new or renovated medical equipment and imaging network.
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Performs calculations and measurements to insure new treatment imaging techniques and to investigate in greater detail established techniques.
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Reviews new calibration protocols and verify by experiment and computation the impact they will have on the clinical application.
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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.
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Intercompares data with other radiation therapy institutions; Stays abreast of clinical and dosimetric literature in sub specialty.
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Attends any hospital assigned committees (i.e. Radiation Safety Committee).
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Maintains professional working relationship with the pertinent Department Directors and the Medical Directors; Develops and maintains contacts with physicists in other practices.
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May perform additional duties as assigned.
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other members of the public.
- Delivers physics lectures to Inova personnel concerning radiation matters.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in physical science
About Inova
Inova is Northern Virginia's leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Our mission is to provide world-class healthcare - every time, every touch - to each person in every community we have the privilege to serve. Inova's 19,000 team members serve more than 2 million individuals annually through an integrated network of hospitals, primary and specialty care practices, emergency and urgent care centers, outpatient services and destination institutes.
Inova's five hospitals are consistently recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals and Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades for excellence in healthcare.
Inova is home to Northern Virginia's only Level 1 Trauma Center and Level 4 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Its hospitals have a total of 1,936 licensed beds.
Inova is an equal opportunity employer.
As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.