ČESKÁ SPOLEČNOST FYZIKŮ V MEDICÍNĚ, o.s.

Česká společnost fyziků v medicíně, o.s.

Recommended staffing levels of medical physicists, technicians and other technical staff dedicated to medical physics activities in radiotherapy

Teletherapy
Number of all linear accelerators
Number of LA capable of IMRT
Number of electron beams
Number of photon beams
Number of MV EPIDs for patient position verification
Number of MV EPIDs for dosimetric verification
Number of kV imaging devices
Number of Cobalt units
Number of patients treated on RTG or Cs machines per year
Number of patients treated on Cobalt units per year
Number of patients treated on LA per yearWithout IGRTWith IGRT
3D conformal radiotherapy
IMRT
Number of conventional simulators
Number of CT simulators
Number of radiotherapeutic RTG machines
- number of RTG beams
Number of different planning systems

Brachytherapy
Number of brachytherapy machines
Number of patients treated by afterloading machines/td>
Number of patients treated by manual technique

Working hours – 40 hours per week.

Calculated number of required medical physicists, technicians and other technical staff: 0.19

Additional comments

The result represents the total number of medical physicists, technicians and other technical staff dedicated to treating plan calculations, in-vivo dosimetry and IMRT + IGRT.

According to the Czech legislation at least one qualified medical physicist has to be employed full-time in each radiotherapy department, and at least one medical physicist has to be permanently present during clinical service.

The calculation does not include activities of radiation safety officers and highly specialized activities, for example whole-body irradiation, stereotactic radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery.

The calculator does not reflect the following factors:

  • Required time for teaching (at a university)
  • Multishift operation, overtime working hours
  • Working hours during the weekend
  • Development of new and updating of existing documentation

The calculator can be used only to obtain results for an individual department of radiotherapy. To obtain a calculation for multiple departments, you need to proceed with the calculation for each individual department, and then add up the workload results.