Medical Physics Residency

The Medical Physics Residency Program at St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a CAMPEP accredited two-year program, geared towards those who wish to pursue a career as a medical physicist within a Radiation Oncology practice. Our program is organized through St. Luke’s Graduate Medical Education office, which currently has over forty programs to offer.

Our program is housed at our Anderson Campus in the Radiation Oncology department within the SLUHN Oncology service line. Our Anderson Campus offers a state-of-the-art facility set amongst a beautiful walking path and the St. Luke’s Rodale Institute Organic Farm. The Anderson Campus allows St. Luke’s to provide high quality care with the community feel that our patients have come to know.

Our medical physics faculty and future medical physics residents are employees of St. Luke’s University Health Network, providing services to the Radiation Oncology departments at each of our locations. Each department has a unique complement of technology and equipment, and St. Luke’s is proud to have been the first in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware to acquire the Varian ETHOS therapy system, advancing treatments for cancer patients in the Lehigh Valley.

Our residents will benefit from the experience of our Radiation Oncologists, physicists, and expert team of dosimetrists and therapists along with our oncology nurses, dieticians, and in-house Linac service engineers. The department also hosts a medical dosimetry-training program in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University.

The objective of the Residency Program is to provide comprehensive, structured education and training in a clinical environment that will provide our residents with a diverse experience. At. St. Luke’s they will have the exposure and opportunity to complete plans for patients in various states of disease progression and location, using a plethora of advanced techniques to achieve desirable outcomes. Our Medical Physics Residency Program is designed to enable graduates to independently practice professional radiation oncology physics.

Under the supervision of board-certified medical physicists, residents will participate in the clinical duties of a radiation oncology physicist. Graduates of the residency program will be able to provide quality patient care in accordance with evidence-based practices, gain valuable knowledge and implement innovative technologies, and prepare to sit for the certification examination of the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics.