JOB DESCRIPTION

The Department of Radiation Oncology at the Mount Sinai Health System is accepting applications for medical physicists to join us in Manhattan. The successful hire will participate in all aspects of clinical physics services.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The responsibilities for Medical Physicist include the treatment planning, machine QA, special procedure and teaching. Assists in ensuring that complex treatments are properly tailored for each patient and monitors the patient’s treatment and records for quality assurance.

• Create treatment plans to accurately deliver the Radiation Oncologist’s prescribed dose while sparing critical structures.

• Correlate simulation radiographs with other diagnostic data such as CT scans to determine tumor and target locations and transfer this information from CT to radiographs.

• Collaborates with radiation therapists in the setup of patients and the use of treatment aids and immobilization devices.

• Consults with the Radiation Oncologist and assists in the development of a customized treatment plan for patients.

• Calculates precise measurements and determine the number of radiation beams for the equipment according to the treatment plan.

• Monitor each patient’s treatment and records to assure the quality of their radiation treatments.

• Teach dosimetry, simulations, and treatment planning to Radiation Oncology Residents and Medical Physics Residents during their rotations.

• Participates in weekly radiation oncology chart rounds for the review of new patients’ treatment and assist in the peer review of treatment plans.

• Perform QA for linear accelerators, HDR remote afterloader, simulator, treatment equipment, and the treatment planning systems. If Board certified and approved, adjust LINAC output and supervise machine service.

• Conduct both clinical and experimental research.

• If Board certified and approved, perform planning and treatments for stereotactic, HDR, prostate implants/brachytherapy, ICBT and TBI.

• Provide information for protocol patients as requested by the National Quality Assurance Review Center (QARC).

• Supervise dosimetrists.

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Primary clinical responsibilities will be given at the Mount Sinai Downtown.

The physicist will work with 14 board-certified physicists, 9 dosimetrists, 2 medical physics residents, and 17 radiation oncologists within the Mount Sinai Health System (4 sites in Manhattan; 200 patients treated daily). Our state-of-the-art treatment devices include 11 Varian LINACs, ZEISS IORT, CT simulators (Philips, Siemens, and GE), Brainlab Elements and Eclipse treatment planning system, MOSAIQ EMR, HDR Afterloader (Elekta and Varian), Oncentra, ExacTrac, and AlignRT. Mount Sinai is a partner of New York Proton Consortium.

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates are required to have a Master?s degree in Medical Physics or a related field (a Ph.D. is preferred) and should be board-certified or eligible for board certification. Candidates must possess, or be eligible for, a New York State Therapeutic Radiological Physics license.

Non-Bargaining Unit, BVE - Radiology Oncology - USD, Union Square - Downtown

REQUIRED SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite

ABOUT US

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3017815