Table 2.
Spreadsheet showing the Ontario 2011 recommendations of FTE for unit workload specified in the shaded green cells in column 2. For the training and education of specialists, a baseline value is used for the physicist calculation only where indicated.
| FTE Weighting | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physics | Engineering | ||||||
| Item | Workload | Physicist | Assistant | Dosimetrist | Electronics | Mechanical | Computer Support |
| Clinical Procedures and Services | |||||||
| All radiation beam/source therapy ‐ includes external beam therapy and brachytherapy | 1 | 0.0005 | 0.0002 | 0.0020 | 0.0002 | 0.0001 | |
| Complexity bonus increment for inverse IMRT including tomotherapy, clinical trial protocols, gated beams, 4D plans, multi‐modality image fusion (cases/yr). | 1 | 0.0015 | 0.0030 | 0.0003 | |||
| External beam ‐ special procedure bonus increment (total body X or electron, radiosurgery) (cases/yr) | 1 | 0.0050 | 0.0025 | 0.0010 | 0.0010 | ||
| Brachytherapy ‐ LDR or HDR (fractions/yr) | 1 | 0.0020 | 0.0005 | 0.0004 | |||
| Brachytherapy ‐ interstitial seed implants (cases/yr) | 1 | 0.0050 | 0.0020 | 0.0020 | |||
| Radiotherapy Equipment Support | |||||||
| Accelerators (all linacs, including tomotherapy and robotic linacs) | 1 | 0.20 | 0.30 | 0.30 0.10 | |||
| Major ancillary RT equipment: TPS (1 per vendor per 10 workstations), PET‐CT, MR‐Sim, 4D CTsim, HDR | 1 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.20 0.05 | 0.10 | ||
| Minor ancillary RT equipment: X‐ray Sim, CT‐Sim, LDR unit, Gamma Knife, orthovoltage unit, ultrasound unit, gating/motion monitoring device | 1 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.10 0.05 | |||
| Training and Education of specialists | |||||||
| Radiation Oncology Residents* | 1 | 0.11 | 0.05 | ||||
| Radiation Therapy Students | 1 | 0.02 | 0.05 | ||||
| Clinical Physics Residents* | 1 | 0.20 | 0.05 | ||||
| Medical Physics Graduate Students* | 1 | 0.20 | |||||
| Administration & Other Duties | |||||||
| Administrative workload per staff category (Human Resources) | , added to physicist FTE only | ||||||
| Administration (by Chief, Radiation Safety Officer) | (0.15 * number of physicists), added to physicist FTE only | ||||||
| Clinical development, conference attendance, courses, site visits | Total physicist FTE increased to allow 20% effort | ||||||
| Time away for paid holidays and vacation (FTE per employee) | Total staff FTE increased to allow 10% absence | ||||||
*
A baseline value of 0.1 is used for the calculation of physicist FTE only.