Remote Medical Physicist

Summary

Join our team as a Remote Medical Physicist and contribute to patient safety by reviewing reported incidents, communicating with service chiefs, and generating quarterly reports.

Requirements

• 20 years minimum clinical experience in state-of-the-art radiotherapy
• Possession of a PhD specializing in Brachytherapy, External Beam Therapy, and Radiopharmaceutical therapy
• Board certification in Therapeutic Medical Physics
• Proven track record working with Patient Safety Organizations (PSO) of AHRQ

Responsibilities

• Web-based review of each reported incident
• On-line communication with the reporter to get supplemental information to complete incident analysis and create a patient safety work product (PSWP) that includes the corrective action plan for the submitter
• Participate in regularly scheduled calls with the service chiefs, medical physicists, radiation therapists/dosimetrists to provide a report on lessons-learnt from the reported incidents since the preceding call
• Generate quarterly newsletter highlighting lessons-learnt from reported incidents
• In addition, prepare a quarterly report on RIRAS for the National Radiation Safety Committee (NRSC) of VA
• Regularly communicate with ROS to address their questions regarding RIRAS
• Set up regular virtual office hour (1hour/week) for end-users