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.

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

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