Residency Curriculum
OHSU’s Medical Physics Residency Program is a CAMPEP accredited two year residency program. Residents are provided with a residency training schedule that provide an overview of each clinical rotation, the duration of each rotation, learning objectives, evaluation points, and reading materials. Residents are provided with a tracking portal account to log and track clinical cases during each clinical rotation.
Year 1 rotation schedule
- Dosimetry
- Radiation Safety
- Quality Assurance
- Linac Annual Quality Assurance
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery/Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy
- Cyber Knife
- Gamma Knife
- Tomo Annual Quality Assurance
- Project Elective
Year 2 rotation schedule
- Tomotherapy
- Brachytherapy
- Shielding Design
- Therapeutic Imaging
- Special Procedures: Total Body Irradiation
- Special Procedures: Total Skin Electron Therapy
- Linac Annual Quality Assurance
- Acceptance & Commissioning
- Project Elective
Residents are required to attend and participate in:
- Contour/Chart Rounds (Tuesday, Thursday)
- Physics Journal Club (Monthly)
- Radiation Biology Course (Annually)
- Physics Didactics (Weekly)
Residents are encouraged to attend:
- Tumor Boards
- Graduate Medical Physics Journal Club
- Graduate Medical Physics Advanced Imaging Course
Residents are also required to instruct in a lecture or practicum setting to the graduate students and/or medical residents.
The Medical Physics Residency Program does not contain a research requirement but residents are strongly encouraged to develop this skillset through clinical implementation projects which require literature review, experimentation, and documentation. Example of such projects include:
- Beam modelling and validation testing of VersaHD in Eclipse prior to FDA release
- Modelling and validation of a couch top designed to create compatibility between the Hexapod table and the Calypso tracking system
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