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A Medical Physicist is a clinician with substantial tertiary qualifications in physics who applies their knowledge of the principles of physics to the care of patients.
Radiation oncology medical physics is the application and development of the principles and techniques of physics for the therapeutic use of ionising radiation. The Australiasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) considers a physicist as being a qualified radiation oncology medical physicist if he/she has been awarded ACPSEM Accreditation in Radiation Oncology Medical Physics.
Medical physicists work autonomously and in multidisciplinary teams in areas of health including; radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, radiological imaging, biomechanics, radiation monitoring, radiography and in scientific analysis of medical data. Medical Physicists are likely to have careers in hospitals, clinics or other major health centres.
Responsibilities range from setting up and maintaining computerised data collection and analysis systems, computer manipulation of medical images and radiation monitoring during the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
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