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Resident's Offices, Classrooms, and Conference Rooms
The Physics Resident Office is currently located in K4/B57 of the Clinical Science Center of the University of Wisconsin, Hospital and Clinics and is in the Radiation Therapy department. Each resident is provided with a desk, file cabinet, bookcase, and computer connected to local area network as well as standard office supplies. They also have access to copying equipment and other necessary items pertaining to the program.
Space is available for resident advisory meetings, lectures, seminars and both written and oral examinations. The department of Human Oncology has two lecture rooms and two conference rooms. Whiteboard, overhead projectors, 35mm slide projectors are available in every room.
Clinical Facilities, Laboratories, and Shops
Residents have access to two shops and a large number of laboratories in our program. A shop located on the same floor of the radiation therapy clinic is available for resident's use. Complex and precision jobs can be submitted to the Medical Physics shop. The availability of dosimetry and clinical treatment areas and equipment is adequate to serve the needs of the residency program. Procedures are in place that allows the resident to access these instruments, get training for its safe and proper use.
Libraries
The major libraries available to students are the University of Wisconsin Medical School Library, University of Wisconsin Main Campus Library and the Department of Medical Physics library. All of the libraries are accessible by the University shuttle. Residents also have access to the Physics Section Library on the third floor of the Clinical Science Center, which maintains bound volumes of Medical Physics, and International Journal Radiation Oncology Biology, and Physics. Medline accounts are available for the residents for manuscript keyword/author searches.
Safety
Incoming residents are required to pass a radiation safety exam within the first 2-weeks of beginning the program. A course syllabus and copy of the past year's exam is included with orientation material. In addition, the University of Wisconsin Radiation Safety Office provides an annual refresher lecture which all staff and residents are required to attend.
All first year residents are issued a radiation dosimeter badge by UW as part of their new employee procedure.
Residents attend orientation lectures on treatment machine operation and introductory training in the dangers of high voltage.
During the course of the first year, Physics Residents attend a lecture or participate in a U.W. web-course intended to make them aware of potential hazards due to chemicals, bio-hazardous materials and bodily fluid precautions. Residents also attend required safety training provided by the University and the U.W. Hospital, including fire safety. Details of the safety training are outlined in the Residency Orientation Manual.