Assistant Physicist – Radiation Oncology

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

As an Assistant Physicist in radiation therapy, your role is to support various aspects of dosimetry, calibration, treatment planning, and safety under the guidance of a licensed medical physicist. You'll be responsible for calculating treatment time, preparing dosimetric information, including contour taking, computer-assisted treatment planning, dose computation, and designing beam shaping blocks and compensators. Additionally, you'll handle documentation and treatment portal design, ensuring precision and adherence to safety protocols throughout the process.CLICK HERE to learn more about the Lennar Foundation Cancer Center!

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Assist our Quality Assurance Program for Clinical Radiation Dosimetry: review of proper dose delivery and cumulative dose; compare computed dose with delivered dose using diodes or TLD's
• Perform tests to check operation of therapy machines; recalibrate therapy machines.
• Retrieve previous treatment records

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor's Degree in Physics or Engineering
• New grads welcome to apply

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