Medical Physicist

St. Mary's General Hospital is an acute care hospital offering a broad range of health care services and community outreach programs.

Committed to Excellence in Patient Care

With the expertise and support of Prime Healthcare, St. Mary's General Hospital is raising the bar for healthcare in New Jersey.

Prime Healthcare is one of the largest hospital companies in the nation. They are helping us improve the quality of care by investing heavily in upgrades to our facilities, computerized technology, and medical equipment. And the results are already showing. We have earned praise as a Top Performer in Key Quality Areas from the Joint Commission two years in a row; we have a totally digitally mammography, radiology and imaging center; and there is more to come. Much more.

Our Medical Physicist is responsible for designing a treatment plan and accurately calculating the delivery of radiation treatment based on the Radiation Oncologists prescribed course of radiation therapy and according to established practices and standards. In addition to the Medical Physicist duties the selected candidate is expected to be or become qualified and capable in treatment planning for all treatment planning for external beam radiotherapy. Calculates treatment machine settings, documents calculations, and records treatment data in therapy chart. May perform or assist in the receiving, loading, and shipping of radioactive materials.