Medical Dosimetrist

We are seeking a highly skilled Medical Dosimetrist to contribute to the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center at UPMC East in Monroeville, PA. This role offers a hybrid work arrangement that balances on-site duties with work-from-home capabilities.

The Dosimetrist in this position will collaborate with a team of dosimetrists across the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Network, facilitated by our integrated ARIA/Eclipse and Citrix-based IT infrastructure, as well as standardized policies, procedures, and care pathways.

The 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 HDR brachytherapy.

1. Participates in the acquisition of patient data via computer-generated data sets from medical imaging devices or manual methods, and incorporates these data into radiation treatment plans, calculations, and treatment devices.
2. Assists the RTT in the treatment simulation process, including the use of ancillary treatment devices, patient immobilization techniques, and other patient positioning techniques as needed.
3. Contours and delineates normal critical structures and expanded planning structures using different imaging modalities.
4. Performs rigid and deformable image registration for multi-modality image sets.
5. Applies the principles and concepts of radiation physics in radiation treatment planning, including 2D treatment planning, 3D conformal treatment planning, IMRT treatment planning, 4D treatment planning, VMAT planning, SRS and SBRT planning, and brachytherapy treatment planning.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Participates in special treatment procedures, including total body irradiation, total skin electron irradiation, and intra-operative radiation therapy.
9. Assists with quality assurance procedures as directed by a qualified medical physicist.
10. Performs or assists with patient-specific radiation measurement, including diodes, OSLD, ion chambers, TLD, or film measurements as directed by the MP.
11. Assists with HDR and LDR brachytherapy procedures, including patient setup, simulation, and treatment planning.
12. Participates in quality management in accordance with departmental policies, national guidelines, and accreditation standards.
13. Performs routine chart checks per departmental policy.
14. Participates in charge capture and generates documentation for billing in accordance with departmental policies.
15. Participates in clinical research for the development and implementation of new techniques in radiation therapy.
16. Participates in educational activities, including providing instruction and training to new staff members, physician residents, physicist residents, RTT trainees, and medical dosimetrist trainees.
17. Maintains an atmosphere of caring, concern, and support for patients, visitors, medical staff, and colleagues.
18. Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as directed by supervising medical physicists.
19. Adheres to high ethical standards in relation to patients, students, trainees, and colleagues.
20. Ensures accurate data transfer of patient and treatment plan information to clinical systems, including record and verify systems, imaging guidance systems, surface guidance systems, treatment delivery systems, and electronic medical record systems.
21. Utilizes critical thinking skills when performing radiation treatment planning, plan evaluation, recognizing and resolving equipment problems and treatment discrepancies.
22. Maintains a commitment to a high degree of accuracy, attention to detail, and safety.
23. Communicates with the radiation oncologist during the treatment planning process and participates in communicating the plan to the medical physicist and radiation therapy technologists for plan implementation.
24. 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.

Bachelor's degree preferred.

Completion of a Medical Dosimetry educational program accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT).

Board certified 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.

Certified Medical Dosimetrist (CMD) or board eligibility required. Must maintain adequate CE credits to retain certification.

CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.

Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.