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What is a Medical Physicist?

A medical physicist in radiotherapy plays a crucial role in ensuring the precision and safety of cancer treatments using high-energy radiation, such as x-rays. Radiotherapy is a delicate balance—delivering enough radiation to destroy cancer cells while minimising harm to surrounding healthy tissues. Medical physicists collaborate closely with therapeutic radiographers, clinical oncologists, engineers, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to provide a safe, effective, and cutting-edge radiotherapy service.

Key Responsibilities of a Radiotherapy Physicist:

• Treatment Planning: Medical physicists develop individualised treatment plans using advanced computer calculations and imaging from CT or MRI scans. These plans carefully target the tumour while sparing healthy tissues. Depending on the case, treatment may involve external radiation beams or radioactive sources positioned near or inside the patient.
• Precision and Accuracy: Ensuring that all radiotherapy equipment, including linear accelerators and imaging devices, is accurately calibrated and maintained is a core responsibility. The physicist monitors equipment throughout the treatment process to adjust plans as necessary for ongoing precision.
• Quality Control: Radiotherapy physicists oversee quality assurance programs to maintain the safety and performance of all equipment. They also play a central role in commissioning new and highly complex machinery, ensuring it functions correctly and safely from the start.
• Radiation Protection: In addition to ensuring accurate treatments, physicists advise on the safe design of radiotherapy facilities and the handling and storage of radioactive materials to protect both patients and staff.
• Research and Development: Medical physicists are at the forefront of developing and implementing new technologies and techniques in cancer treatment, continually improving outcomes for patients.
• Problem Solving: When issues arise with complex equipment or treatments, medical physicists are responsible for diagnosing and resolving these challenges, ensuring the safe and continued delivery of care.
• Teaching: Education is an integral part of a physicist's role. They provide training to junior physicists on their path to professional registration and teach physics principles to doctors and other members of the radiotherapy team.