Medical Physicist

Sri Devaraj Urs Academy; Tamaka; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sri Devaraj Urs Academy is seeking a medical physicist to apply physics principles to healthcare, ensuring safe and accurate technologies for diagnosis and treatment.

The role covers equipment QA for CT, MRI, and X-ray systems, collaboration on radiation treatment planning, safety monitoring, clinical consulting, and R&D on new medical tech and software.

Qualifications

• The education and training required to become a medical physicist.
• The work environment and daily routine in a hospital.

Responsibilities

• Test and maintain complex imaging and treatment machines to ensure peak performance and image quality.
• Collaborate with oncologists to design precise radiation doses that target tumors while protecting healthy tissue.
• Monitor radiation exposure levels, establish safety protocols, and comply with health regulations for staff and patients.
• Advise doctors and healthcare teams on technical problems involving radiation therapy or nuclear medicine.
• Invent or refine new medical technologies, software, and treatment techniques.

Skills

Equipment QA

Radiation safety

Clinical consulting

Research & development

Job description

Role & responsibilities

A medical physicist applies physics principles to healthcare, ensuring that advanced medical technologies used for diagnosing and treating diseases are safe and accurate.

Core Responsibilities

• Equipment Quality Assurance: Test and maintain complex imaging and treatment machineslike CT scanners, MRIs, and X-ray systems—to ensure peak performance and image quality.
• Radiation Treatment Planning: Collaborate with oncologists to design precise radiation doses that target tumors while protecting healthy tissue.
• Radiation Safety: Monitor radiation exposure levels, establish safety protocols, and comply with health regulations for staff and patients.
• Clinical Consulting: Advise doctors and healthcare teams on technical problems involving radiation therapy or nuclear medicine.
• Research and Development: Invent or refine new medical technologies, software, and treatment techniques.

Main Specialty Areas

• Therapeutic Medical Physics: Focuses on using high-energy radiation to treat cancer.
• Diagnostic Medical Physics: Focuses on optimizing medical imaging tools like MRI, ultrasound, and fluoroscopy.
• Health Physics: Focuses on general radiation safety and regulatory compliance.

• The education and training required to become a medical physicist
• The work environment and daily routine in a hospital
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• National Careers ServiceMedical physicist | Explore CareersAs a medical physicist, you could: * design and develop systems to diagnose and treat health conditions. * monitor equipment to ma...

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