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Medical College of Wisconsin Physics Residency Rotations

The length of the Physics Residency program is three years with the training calendar typically beginning July 1 each year. The Physics Resident is expected to complete all research and clinical rotations. Through this curriculum, the physics resident is exposed to both the clinical and research aspects of radiation oncology physics, important components in this increasingly technological environment.

Rotations

Clinical rotations vary in length from 1 to 3 months and is updated semi-annually. At the start of each rotation, the physics resident will be given a rotation summary addressing the expectations of each rotation in the areas of required reading, expected competences, and evaluation criteria.

Concurrently throughout the program, the resident will participate in clinical task coverage activities including Elekta machine QA, MRL machine QA, Radixact machine QA, patient plan delivery QA, In-vivo dosimetry, and informatics. Residents are actively involved in annual machine QAs as well as commissioning measurements for newly-installed radiotherapy machines, software, and detectors. Also included is attendance to annual society meetings (AAPM, ASTRO).

Clinical Training Rotation Rotation length
Orientation/ethics class (CITI modules, RSNA/AAPM) 1 month
1 month 1 month
Treatment Planning (3D) 3 months
Treatment Planning (IMRT) 3 months
Research 1A 3 months
Research 1B 3 months
Brachytherapy 1 3 months
SBRT (linac)/SRS (Gamma knife) 2 months
Physicist of the Day (POD satellite) 1 month
Physicist of the Day (POD FH) (main campus) 2 months
Research 2A 3 months
Research 2B 3 months
Special procedures (MR linac/MR sim) 3 months
Special procedures (Protons) 1 month
Brachytherapy 2 3 months

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