at University of Illinois at Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Medical Radiation Dosimetrist II- Radiation Oncology
Medical Radiation Dosimetrist II- Radiation Oncology
Hiring Department: Radiation Oncology
Hiring Unit: University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health)
Location: Chicago, IL USA
Requisition ID: 1023909
Posting Close Date: 7/12/2024
Position Number: CF1045
About the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health)
The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health) provides comprehensive care, education, and research to the people of Illinois and beyond. A part of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), UI Health comprises a clinical enterprise that includes a 495-bed tertiary care hospital, 30 outpatient clinics, and 13 Mile Square Health Center facilities, which are Federally Qualified Health Centers. It also includes the seven UIC health science colleges: the College of Applied Health Sciences; the College of Dentistry; the School of Public Health; the Jane Addams College of Social Work; and the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing, including regional campuses in Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford, Springfield, and Urbana. UI Health is dedicated to the pursuit of health equity.
Advanced Care
The Specialty Care Building (SCB), opened in September 2022, is our new, advanced care center at UI Health.
The 200,000-square-foot facility features six floors of patient care space that accommodates the increasing volume and complexity of surgical care, education, and research at the University of Illinois Hospital & Clinics and its health science partners at UIC.
The SCB is home for state-of-the-art care, including Outpatient Surgery; Transplant Services; Ophthalmology; Ear, Nose, Throat/Otolaryngology; Head & Neck Surgery; Urology; and Gastroenterology.
Technology
The University of Illinois Hospital is consistently named among the "Most Wired Hospitals" by Hospitals and Health Networks magazine.
UI Health offers state-of-the-art digital mammograms, providing patients less time in the exam room, more clear and accurate images, and easy storage and retrieval of digital images.
Two state-of-the-art 3-Tesla MRIs for clinical and research use at the Advanced Imaging Center; as well as the world's most powerful 9.4T MRI dedicated to advancing medicine through clinical research.
Molecular imaging and PET-CT imaging elevates the precision of diagnoses for cancer and neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases.
Leading-edge radiation oncology with the ExacTrac image guided radiotherapy. UI Health physicians target and treat tumors by combining precision-guided radiation therapy and surgery.
A world-class robotic surgery program for all solid organs with a focus on successful outcomes and fewer patient complications.
UI Health is seeking a full time Medical Radiation Dosimetrist II to join our Radiation Oncology team. This role performs complex computation and verifications of treatment plan. They coordinate simulation procedures and work with and provide more advanced assistance to the radiation oncology physicist and the radiation oncologists in treatment planning. They work under general supervision of a radiation oncology physicist.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Records the prescription directly from the radiation oncologist; plans, by means of computer or manual methods, the treatment delivery that will deliver a prescribed radiation dose to a defined tumor volume in simple and complex cases.
Coordinates with other departments patient treatment simulations using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) when indicated to more definitively identify physical aspects of the tumor and its location when needed for radiation treatment planning.
In simulation procedures, recommends to the radiation therapist the proper position of the radiation treatment beams as determined in the treatment plan.
Assists the radiation oncology physicist in the fabrication of compensating filters, custom shields, and the use of wedges and other beam modifying devices for use in radiation therapy.
Provides clarification and guidance to the radiation therapists on the correct use of immobilization devices, compensators, wedges, and field arrangements.
Provides assistance to the radiation oncology physicist regarding radiation protection, qualitative and quantitative... For full info follow application link.
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The University of Illinois Chicago is an affirmative action, equal opportunity
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