Medical Physicist-TLD Service

Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City

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.