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Training Overview

Clinical Training

The two-year program provides a structured rotation schedule covering all aspects of therapeutic medical physics with direct supervision by board-certified medical physicists. The clinical training program combined with the academic environment at UCLA is designed to fully prepare the candidate for a successful career in clinical medical physics.

Clinical Training

The UCLA Radiation Oncology medical physics group is an integral part of the educational mission in the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine including a formal medical residency program and the CAMPEP accredited UCLA Physics and Biology in Medicine Graduate Program.

The two-year clinical training consists of 8 quarterly clinical rotations with each quarter representing a clinical rotation area.

  • Simulation, Treatment, Machine QA
  • Treatment planning
  • Radiosurgery/SBRT
  • Clinical development projects
  • Tomotherapy and Ethos
  • Brachytherapy
  • MRI guided RT (MRgRT)
  • Full practice

A radiation safety topic and specialty topic are included for each rotation quarter.

Sample Rotation Schedule

July- Sept Oct-Dec Jan-Mar Apr - June
Orientation/QA Treatment planning SRS/SBRT MRI guided RT
Clinical Projects Tomo/Ethos Brachytherapy Full Practice

Didactic Training

Regular didactic seminars, lectures and conferences are offered including:

  • Treatment site-specific Radiation Oncology Clinical Didactic Lecture Series (ROCDLS)
  • Multidisciplinary tumor boards and Chart rounds
  • Annual Physics Lecture Series designed for preparing medical residents for ABR written physics boards
  • Supplemental didactic lecture series

CAMPEP accredited UCLA Physics and Biology in Medicine (PBM) Graduate Program (formerly known as Biomedical Physics) which offers a certificate program and the following supplemental didactic courses

  • Introductory Radiation Biology
  • Physics of Diagnostic Radiology
  • Fundamentals of Dosimetry
  • Physic of Radiation Therapy
  • Radiologic Functional Anatomy
  • Physics and Chemistry of Nuclear Medicine
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