What are the responsibilities and job description for the PHD - Medical Physicist position at Insight Global?
Job Title: Diagnostic Medical Physicist
We are seeking a dedicated Medical Physicist to join a growing team with a major healthcare system in South Jersey.
About the Role:
This role involves supporting the radiology team in diagnostic procedures, with a small overlap into therapeutic procedures and cancer treatment. The Physicist will work with various imaging modalities including X-ray, fluoroscopy, mammography, bone density, MRI, Nuclear Medicine, and more.
Key Responsibilities:
- Equipment Management: Perform calibration, operation, and output management of imaging equipment. Conduct quality control, evaluate new equipment and facilities, manage radiation shielding (lead levels), and oversee emergency protocols.
- Treatment Support: Work alongside radiology teams to fine-tune treatments and dosages, providing oversight and monitoring for trigger limit overages.
- Safety and Compliance: Ensure safety and regulatory compliance across all imaging areas. Provide education and training for staff in cardiology, operating rooms, offsite clinics, and other imaging locations.
- Regulatory Control: Oversee regulatory control for proton centers and large radiation sources.
- Expansion and Development: Play a significant role in supporting the build-out and expansion of radiology services and advanced tertiary care.
Other Responsibilities:
- Oversee imaging clinical practices at various Virtua divisions to ensure the safe and effective delivery of radiation for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
- Assist in managing QA programs, inspection, and accreditation programs to maintain standards for JCAHO, ACR, OSHA, NJDEP, FDA/MQSA, and NRC.
- Perform testing and surveys to comply with regulatory requirements and re-test CT equipment after major repairs.
- Manage patient dosimetry databases in CT and interventional radiology, ensuring radiation exposures are within clinically acceptable levels.
- Provide radiation safety and image quality improvement education to professional, technical, and other hospital staff.
- Perform patient dose and risk assessment calculations, including fluoroscopic skin dose assessments.
- Troubleshoot image quality issues in X-ray, fluoroscopy, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine.
- Participate in CT QA Committee and review CT protocols with physicians.
- Test and calibrate softcopy displays and perform ultrasound QA/QC.
- Consult with staff and analyze data for reports (e.g., Rad Safety PQI, Leap Frog Reports, CT Dose benchmarking).
- Utilize and maintain radiology QC databases, including Patient Dose Monitoring (Radimetrics), Display Softcopy calibration (QAWeb), Electronic QA Records (ZapIT), ACR (TRIAD), and Lung Cancer Screening Registry (LungDIRECT).
- Apply principles and initiatives of MedPhys 3.0 to the role of the Medical Physicist.
- Perform other radiation safety and imaging quality duties as assigned.
