Welcome
The Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program is a CAMPEP-accredited three-year program in therapy physics providing research and clinical experience in radiation oncology. It is intended for applicants with a Ph.D. in physics or related sciences. The first year is devoted to research and the remaining two years are devoted to clinical training. The program is supported by the three major teaching hospitals of the Harvard Medical School, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical center (BIDMC), the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The three Harvard hospitals offer an unmatched array of physics faculty and state-of-the-art technology including proton radiotherapy, Cyberknife®, MR-Linac, SBRT, IGRT, 4D CT, fluoroscopic gating, image-guided brachytherapy, and IORT, as well as training at one of several network community hospital facilities. The resources of the program include 16 linear accelerators, 6 CT simulators and three conventional simulators on the main campuses and 8 linear accelerators and 5 CT simulators at the affiliated sites. We believe that these combined resources will build a strong foundation in academic and clinical medical physics for the medical physics resident.
Embedded within the residency program is a CAMPEP-accredited Certificate Program. This enables individuals with a non-CAMPEP medical physics Ph.D. to complete all didactic requirements during the residency.
The educational philosophy of the Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program can be broken down into four principles:
- To provide comprehensive clinical education using the technical resources and specialist faculty available at the BIDMC, BWH and MGH.
- To provide training in medical physics that goes beyond the requirements of the board exam
- To develop clinical, translational and/or basic science research skills through a research year
- To develop future leaders in academic medical physics through this clinical training, research opportunities and graded responsibility within the program.
Our goal is to provide clinical training to enable the medical physics resident to pass the ABR boards and to educate the next generation of world-class medical physicists-scientists and leaders. We are proud of the training program we offer and we hope you will consider our program for the next step in your career.
2026 Residency Applications Open
November 4th, 2025
We are now inviting applications for our residency program for a start date of July 1, 2026 with an application deadline of December 1, 2025. We are participating in the MedPhys Match. Our program participates in the MedPhys Match (www.natmatch.com/medphys/), and candidates must register for the Match and apply through the MedPhys Match Application portal. Please see our job ad for more info.
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We are looking forward to hosting our first of two Virtual Residency Fairs today at 4 pm. Come and meet some of the faculty and residents @HarvardMedPhys!
More information and our new video can be found here:
https://harvardmedphys.org
Congratulations to @stephlbenn for winning the #AAPM2022 Jack Fowler Early Career Investigator Award!
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@HarvardMedPhys Resident who did her research year in the @AtcharLab.
Indeed, a great honor to have @paul_keall from @imagexinstitute join us for two days and meet with the @HarvardMedPhys residents!
The @HarvardMedPhys Residency Program will participate in the #AAPM2022 @aapmstsc Residency Fair. Stop by the booth to learn more about the 3 year therapy physics program and chat with some faculty and residents. We look forward to meeting future #medphys leaders!