Radiation Therapy Data Control Technician - Part-Time
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Posted: 30-Jan-25
Location: Beverly Hills, California
Internal Number: 7322
Job Description
Would you like to be part of a team of colleagues who employ pioneering, innovative techniques to design and deliver treatment that improves cancer patient outcomes while minimizing side effects? Do you have a passion for the highest quality and patient happiness? Then please respond to this dynamic opportunity available with one of the best places to work in Southern California! We would be happy to hear from you.??
Cedars-Sinai is a nationally recognized leader in comprehensive clinical cancer care, research, and post-graduate medical education including Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics residency programs.
Our combined departments include six linear accelerators with VMAT, SBRT, SRS, and IGRT capabilities, two HDR brachytherapy afterloaders, two superficial treatment units, three 4D CT-simulators, real-time motion management systems, multi-modality deformable imaging/treatment planning systems and oncology information systems. Over 3000 new patients are treated each year at Cedars-Sinai Radiation Oncology Departments.
Summary of Essential Duties:
Perform plan-specific dosimetric measurements, dose calculations, dosimetric and geometric comparisons, and analysis for IMRT and conformal treatment plans under supervision. Analysis is performed with various dosimetric systems, ion chambers, portal imagers, and other devices.
Analysis of dosimetric and planning results using software applications and tools.
Perform data input and analysis, including processing and digitizing films; analyzing and managing beam data; input, smooth, and document data input for planning systems; prepare planning system test cases; manage and document storage of machine data.
Acquire and or analyze treatment and quality assurance information including machine data, setup, and imaging information. Analyze these data with respect to expected results.
Perform machine and process-related quality assurance checks of the treatment planning/delivery process from simulation through the planning process to treatment delivery; analyze planning and delivery-related data.
Run routine experimental procedures in several areas of medical physics, including dosimetry measurements, planning and optimization experiments, and other relevant types of experiments.
Develop software and scripting applications to assist in data and image analysis, data and image management, experiment development??
Qualifications
Education:??
High School Diploma or GED required
Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Programming, Engineering or related field preferred
Experience:??
Strong competency using a PC in a Windows environment required
About Us
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
About the Team
Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.
Req ID : 7322 Working Title : Radiation Therapy Data Control Technician - Part-Time Department : Radiation Therapy Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Job Category : Administrative Job Specialty : Administrative Overtime Status : NONEXEMPT Primary Shift : Evening Shift Duration : 8 hour Base Pay : $21.66 - $32.49
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
