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Life as a locum has many desirable qualities:  good pay, few administrative responsibilities, travel and lifestyle flexibility.  At Atom Physics Staffing, we’ve had many locums work contracts for us.  Some have had great success and get their choice of assignments, and some have been asked by facilities not to come back.  We have had to…

This may be shocking news to you, but physicists can be a little odd.  Being odd isn’t necessarily a bad thing in itself.  In fact, whenever a patient or staff member asks me about my long somewhat unruly hair, I always tell them that you want your physicist to be a little strange – that’s…

I thought I would share a personal story today.  Something a little outside the normal blog post we do here at Atom Physics Staffing.  I’ve worked my way up through the hospital from being a transporter in the x-ray department, to being a CT tech, to being a board-certified medial physicist, to now owning and…

As I have mentioned in previous communications, the job market is tight right now for board-certified medical physicists. The existence of more job openings than physicists to fill them has lead to a sharp increase in job listings with many of these positions sitting unfilled for months or even years. The result has been the…

Atom Physics Staffing offers contracts that are tailored to each facility, including traditional locum contracts, remote support contracts and hybrid contracts. A hybrid contract mixes on-site and remote work.  Many facilities are moving toward having some of their physics staff working in a hybrid model.  We have several of these contracts across the country, and…

As the owner of a staffing company, I talk to a lot of my fellow physicists and I hear a lot of stories about how people got into this field. The common refrain is that we all kind of got here by accident. Medical physics is not a popular or well-known profession. You probably never…

Are you thinking about becoming a locum medical physicist? Atom Physics Staffing can provide you with the opportunity to work on-site at various facilities through our contract staffing services. Medical physicists are in high demand, and we are eager to work with you to find the best-suited positions for your skills and experience. In this…