Medical Dosimetrist - UPMC in Altoona, PA - Option for a hybrid work arrangement
Company: UPMC Southwestern PA
Location: Greensburg
Posted on: May 8, 2024
Job Description:
We are seeking a clinically excellent Medical Dosimetrist to
join our team in the East Region of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Network. The dosimetrist in this position will provide planning
services for the UPMC Hillman Cancer Centers in Altoona, PA. This
role offers a hybrid work arrangement with on-site duties as well
as the option to work from home. Must live within a commuting
distance to Altoona. This position joins a team of four other
dosimetrists dedicated to these departments and a larger team of
30+ dosimetrists across the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Network.
Collaboration and remote support across the group are facilitated
by our integrated ARIA/Eclipse and Citrix-based IT infrastructure,
as well as standardized policies, procedures, and care pathways
across UPMC.
Job SummaryThe medical dosimetrist is responsible for generating
clinically optimal treatment plans for radiation therapy patients
in collaboration with radiation oncologists, radiation therapy
technologists, and medical physicists. This includes participating
in CT simulation, radiation treatment planning, quality management
for radiation oncology patients, and communicating with the
clinical team during treatment planning and treatment plan
implementation. Treatment techniques include 3DCRT, IMRT, VMAT,
SRS, SBRT, motion management (e.g., respiratory gating and DIBH),
and MR-guided HDR brachytherapy.
Responsibilities:
- Participates in acquisition of patient data via computer
generated data sets from medical imaging devices such as CT, PET,
MR, etc., or manual methods such as physical measurements and wire
contours, and incorporation of these data into radiation treatment
plans, calculations, and treatment devices.
- Assists the RTT in the treatment simulation process including
the use or necessity of ancillary treatment devices, patient
immobilization techniques, and other patient positioning techniques
as needed for simulation and treatment. Assists in fabrication of
these ancillary treatment devices.
- Contours and delineates clearly discernable normal critical
structures and expanded planning structures using different imaging
modalities.
- Performs rigid and deformable image registration for
multi-modality image sets.
- Applies the principles and concepts of radiation physics in
radiation treatment planning, which includes, but is not limited
to: 2D treatment planning, 3D conformal treatment planning,
intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning, 4D
treatment planning, volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)
planning, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body
radiation therapy (SBRT) planning, and brachytherapy treatment
planning.
- Applies knowledge of radiobiology with respect to dose
tolerances, time dose fractionation calculations,
hypofractionation, BED and EQD2 calculations and other applications
of radiobiology to the radiation therapy treatment process.
- Accurately performs radiation dose calculations, both manual
and computer generated, for treatment delivery including the
effects of beam modifying devices, irregular fields, gaps for
adjacent fields, and off-axis calculations.
- Participates in special treatment procedures including, but not
limited to, total body irradiation (TBI), total skin electron
irradiation (TSEI), intra-operative radiation therapy (IORT).
- Assists with quality assurance procedures as directed by a
qualified medical physicist.
- Performs or assists with patient-specific radiation measurement
including, but not limited to diodes, optically stimulated
luminescent dosimeters (OSLD), ion chambers, thermo-luminescent
dosimeters (TLD), or film measurements as directed by the MP.
- Assists with high dose rate (HDR) and low dose-rate (LDR)
brachytherapy procedures including patient set up, simulation, and
treatment planning.
- Participates in quality management in accordance with
departmental policies, national guidelines, and accreditation
standards.
- Performs routine chart checks per departmental policy.
- Participates in charge capture and generates documentation for
billing in accordance with departmental policies.
- Participates in clinical research for the development and
implementation of new techniques in radiation therapy.
- Participates in educational activities such as providing
instruction and training to new staff members, physician residents,
physicist residents, RTT trainees, and medical dosimetrist
trainees.
- Maintains an atmosphere of caring, concern, and support for
patients, visitors, medical staff, and colleagues.
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as directed by
supervising medical physicists.
- Adheres to high ethical standards in relation to patients,
students, trainees, and colleagues.
- Ensures accurate data transfer of patient and treatment plan
information to clinical systems including but not limited to record
and verify systems, imaging guidance systems, surface guidance
systems, treatment delivery systems, and electronic medical record
systems.
- Utilizes critical thinking skills when performing radiation
treatment planning, plan evaluation, recognizing and resolving
equipment problems and treatment discrepancies.
- Maintains a commitment to a high degree of accuracy, attention
to detail, and safety.
- Communicates with the radiation oncologist during the treatment
planning process and participate in communicating the plan to the
medical physicist and radiation therapy technologists for plan
implementation.
- Generates clinically optimal treatment plans utilizing
knowledge of anatomy and physiology, radiation biology and
oncology, radiation safety and protection, mathematics, radiation
therapy techniques, physics, and technology.Qualifications
- Board certification by the Medical Dosimetrist Certification
Board (MDCB).
- Board-eligible candidates must become board certified within
two attempts in the first two consecutive years of employment.
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- Basic Life Support (BLS)Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
(CPR)
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