Medical Physicist-TLD Service
About the role
• To sit as a member on any committee to which being nominated. • To determine radiation doses for various radiologic procedures • To perform on call according to operational needs. • May be required to write policies and procedures for the department of medical physics. • Provides in-service training for Physicians, radiographers, technicians and nursing staff. • May be required to assist in the quality assurance of diagnostic radiology equipment. • Will be required to perform quality assurance surveys of diagnostic radiology equipment and Nuclear medicine and MRI • To perform radiation protection surveys of both diagnostic and Nuclear Medicine installations. • To perform shielding barrier calculations for diagnostic radiology • To assist with the monitoring of doses to personnel using personal systems • To perform diagnostic QC tests on digital radiography units and digital mammography units • To measure patient doses for diagnostic radiology procedures • To estimate the radiation dose received by the patient as well as ways to keep the radiation dose to the workers as low as possible. • To have experience in image reconstruction and data analysis. • To assist in determining the optimal approaches to be used for processing different types of nuclear medicine studies Accountabilities • Prepares reports to ensure safe use of ionizing radiation within the hospital. • Performs the quality assurance tests on linear accelerators at weekly, monthly and annual intervals and generates reports as required by the medical physicists. • To prepare reports of work carried out relating to the work carried out in the department and other reports as they may relate to the safe use of ionizing radiation within the hospital. Experience :- Required: • Upon completion of Internship.