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The Medical Physics Residency Program at the University of Washington (UW) is a two-year clinical education program in therapy physics. Residents have a minimum 4000 hours of clinical training overall, within a highly structured program of rotations. The program is also CAMPEP accredited. We cover all of the essential clinical training elements as well as offer unique, stand-out rotations you won’t find in other programs.

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Residency Program Goals

The goal of our Medical Physics residency program is to provide the necessary clinical experience, education in addition to training in radiation oncology physics to ensure:

  • A broad knowledge of clinical medical physics.
  • A mastery of clinical skill set as a professional medical physicist that allow our graduates to function competently, independently and safely

Residency Program Objectives

The overall objective of our Medical Physics residency program is to deliver the necessary clinical experience in order to graduate residents who are:

  • Eligible and prepared to soon achieve ABR certification in therapeutic medical physics
  • Knowledgeable in the ethics, legal responsibilities, and also published standards of practice of medical physics in the clinical environment
  • Competent in clinical duties of a medical physicist in order to support patient radiation treatments
  • Confident in communicating, presenting, and lastly teaching, medical physics knowledge to a variety of audiences
  • Confident problem solvers, able to learn new skills then apply knowledge in new, innovative ways.


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Program Features

  • The only residency offering clinical experience with Photons, Electrons, Neutrons, and also Protons
  • Pediatric radiation oncology
  • Collaborative educational and research interactions with physicians and MD residents
  • Support to attend annual conference; personal reference library; full health benefits
  • Highly structured program 
  • CAMPEP accredited 
  • Size/Expertise of physics faculty and staff (6:1 ratio) chiefly committed to education
  • Robust, active, mature near–miss incident learning system 
  • Patient communication training (physics consults with patients)


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Program Leadership

Medical Physics Residents

Image of Medical Physics Residents and Staff in 2024.

Each year, as one group of successful Residents graduates, a new group of students begin their Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Residency journey. This exciting beginning and ending then happen here, at the UW Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology.



Click here to see our current residents



Click here to view our medical physics residency alumni


CAMPEP Required Disclosures

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Offered Admission
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Enrolled in Program
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Completing Program
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Destination of Graduates:
Clinical
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Industry
Academic
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Government
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