The purpose of the residency is to provide the training necessary for the medical physics resident to become an independent academic clinical medical physicist in radiation therapy. This is achieved through a 3 year residency program, with two years focused on clinical training (preparing the resident for certification by the American Board of Radiology (ABR)), and a third research year, giving the resident the opportunity to establish a research path which can be expanded and further explored upon graduation from this program. The research year has proven to be an advantage when seeking employment.
The Beaumont University Hospital (Corewell Health) radiation therapy physics residency is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Educational Programs (CAMPEP). The program follows all CAMPEP guidelines. The residency consists of over 20 carefully structured rotations covering the full range of medical physics practice. The curriculum provides comprehensive, mentored, hands-on experience, and progressive responsibility providing the opportunity to work towards becoming fully independent by the time residents complete the program.
The program currently supports three residents. We do not anticipate any openings until early 2027.
Applicants should have a Masters or PhD in medical physics from a CAMPEP accredited program or a PhD in a closely related field and a certificate from CAMPEP. “A certificate program is a program of didactic coursework offered by a CAMPEP-accredited graduate or residency program, intended to enable individuals with a doctoral degree in physics or a related discipline to meet the didactic requirements needed to enter a CAMPEP-accredited residency program.” The Beaumont Medical Physics Residency is a clinical training program. The applicant is expected to have the necessary formal coursework in this field.
Application materials must include:
- a cover letter introducing your application and explaining your career goals
- a CV
- three letters of reference (sent directly by the candidate’s references)
- graduate transcripts
The Clinical Physics Division of Radiation Oncology is currently staffed with 20 physicists and 17 dosimetrists. We provide a full range of clinical services at three cancer centers at Royal Oak, Troy and Dearborn, including:
- Proton therapy with pencil beam scanning (IBA ProteusOne superconducting synchrocyclotron)
- IMRT
- VMAT
- SBRT
- SRS (Gamma Knife and linac based)
- IGRT and Adaptive RT (including Unity MR linac)
- HDR/LDR brachytherapy, intravascular brachytherapy
The three centers maintain ten high-energy linear accelerators (Elekta), as well as Pinnacle, RayStation and Monaco planning systems and MOSAIQ OIS, three large bore CT scanners (Philips), one large bore PET-CT (Philips) and one large bore 3T MRI (Philips)., The accelerators have onboard cone beam imaging and VMAT delivery capability with six degree-of-freedom robotic tables. The Royal Oak hospital has an IBA ProteusOne synchrocyclotron for proton therapy with pencil beam scanning and an Elekta Icon Gamma Knife unit. An Elekta Unity MR linac recently began treating patients. Extra imaging and localization devices in external beam radiotherapy include 4D real-time ultrasound and Active Breathing Control devices (Elekta). In addition, three Elekta HDR units with online planning systems, ultrasound units, and C-arms are utilized in the brachytherapy program.
Corewell Health also has a medical residency program in
radiation oncology and a dosimetry training program.