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Education | Medical Physics Residency


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 within a highly structured program of rotations. The program is CAMPEP accredited. We cover all of the essential clinical training elements and offer some unique, stand-out rotations that you won’t find in other programs.

Curriculum Table of Contents


Rotation Schedule - 2 year sample

Below is a sample 2-year rotation schedule that a resident may experience. Residents are one-on-one with a mentor in each rotation, so each resident has a different rotation schedule.

Every rotation includes

  • Description, objectives, competencies
  • Didactics, discussions, readings, written assignments, problem set assignments, clinical exercises, practicum, observations
  • Daily logbook
  • Related project
  • End of rotation presentation
  • Evaluation/self evaluation/mentor evaluation
Year 1 Year 2
July
Introduction
July
Image Guidance (continued)
August
Basic Treatment Planning
August
Brachy
September
September
October
Equipment & QA/QC
October
Site Specific Rotation 7-8
November
November
Site Specific Rotation 1-6
December
December
January
Clinical Development
January
February
Advanced Treatment Planning
February
Clinical Development
March
March
Protons or International Rotation
April
Continuous Safety Improvement
April
SRS/SBRT
May
May
Radiation Protection
June
Image Guidance
June
Options

Clinical Duties

  • TBI planning
  • Patient-specific measurement QA
  • Physicist of the Day: learning the clinical role of the on-call physicist
  • Linac: taking responsibility for a linac unit under faculty supervision

Benchmarks

The six benchmarks below are required to successfully complete the residency training program.

  • Successfully complete all rotations
  • Routinely participate in department resident didactics, seminars, conferences
  • Demonstrate teaching and training skills development
  • Complete at least 1 clinical development project
  • Successfully pass annual oral exam/performance review

Clinical Development and Research

Residents work with faculty on a major development project with the expectation that the work minimally is submitted as an abstract to a professional meeting and may be published.

  • Work extends over two-year period of the residency
  • Two months are dedicated, protected research time
  • Residents are encouraged and supported to present research at regional and national professional meetings





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