The program is organized in accordance with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Report, No. 90: Essentials and Guidelines for Hospital-Based Medical Physics Residency Training Programs, 2006. In the program, you will cover the following topics:
Program faculty offer courses, such as radiobiology, statistics and imaging physics. During your residency, you can also take other courses available at Rush University.
The length of the program is three years. You will attend classes and clinical conferences, assist in performing various quality assurance tasks and participate in clinical research and development projects during your first year. At the beginning of your second year, you will start clinical rotations in various areas. By the end of your third year, you will have completed eight structured clinical rotations. A mentoring staff physicist will directly supervise you during your rotations and monitor your progress through performance evaluations.
The Department of Radiation Oncology has seven PhD-level physicists and six attending physicians. All physicians and physicists are either ABR certified or in the process of getting their certification. The faculty is active in clinical services, teaching and research. Our faculty members are excellent teachers; our medical residents have consistently ranked above the ninetieth percentile in the ACR in-service physics board exams in the past.
The Department of Radiation Oncology has the following equipment:
The department has the following active clinical and research programs:
The program director, in collaboration with the medical physics residency committee, is responsible for the administration of the program. It is the program director’s responsibility to advise residents, coordinate clinical rotations and didactic training, and to evaluate and promote the program. The committee meets regularly to review the progress of the residents and the operation of the program. All clinical training takes place in the Department of Radiation Oncology. The Office of Graduate Medical Education monitors and reviews the quality of the program and provides oversight to assure its adherence to the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs standards.
The medical physics residency program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs: One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740. Phone: (571) 298-1239.