Physics Teaching Packages
A purpose-built medical physics learning environment — combining theory, simulation, assessment, and virtual LINAC access to develop more confident, clinically prepared, board-ready physicists.
SIMAC Physics Package is an internally-managed, web-based platform that teaches medical linac concepts without a physical machine. Every student gets personal access to SIMAC Learning for self-study, and the graduate and residency packages further include the education edition of SIMAC Machine and SIMAC Water Tank. Packages are available for undergraduate, graduate, and residency programs.
What it supports
- Residency readiness — gives students a deeper understanding of linac operation and the ability to study independently.
- CAMPEP objectives — consistent experiences with measurable evidence of engagement, assessment, and competency.
- ABR readiness — reinforce foundational knowledge through interactive learning, not passive content.
- Academic-to-clinical bridge — connect classroom concepts to machine operation, QA, and workflow.
- Faculty capacity — automated grading and progress tracking to free faculty for mentorship.
In the classroom
- Bring a linac to class without need of a cancer centre — any number of students
- Let students make setup & delivery mistakes without fear of breaking anything
- Bring a full virtual water tank to the room; demonstrate QA measurements
- Teach both Varian & Elekta, even if you don't have both machines on site
- Assign readings, quizzes, and labs — learn by doing, not by reading
- Competency based assessment with student progress dashboards
What's in a package
Every package includes SIMAC Learning. The graduate and residency packages add SIMAC Machine; the undergraduate package is a reduced set — 8 labs only, without the textbooks or SIMAC Machine.
- Operation and QA textbook — the linac from beam generation to clinical delivery
- 26 labs — component and subsystem labs with evaluation questions and answer keys
- 13 SIMAC exercises — guided procedures run on the virtual linac
- Machine Config — change any setting and see the beam respond
- Service Mode — mirrors the manufacturer's own service interface
- Scanning water tank — dose plots from any machine configuration
- Calibration water tank — TG-51 / TRS-398 output and machine gain
Packages by level
Graduate and residency contain the same products. The difference is how they're sold and how long students keep access.
Rather than licensing each program separately, cover both under a single institutional subscription. Unlimited users, and everyone — both students and instructors — gets full year access.
What it does — and doesn't do today
A teaching platform built on the standard, non-configurable editions of SIMAC Machine and SIMAC Water Tank — excellent for education, not intended for clinical commissioning or service.
- ›Consistent, simulator based learning for any class size
- ›Competency based assessment with progress tracking
- ›Covers Varian & Elekta with an included virtual water tank
- ›Some components not yet covered — including MLC and image guidance
- ›Uses standard, non-configurable editions — not for clinical commissioning
- ›Not a substitute for hands-on time on a department's own machine
Hands-on, without the machine
Every package includes the SIMAC Machine Education Edition — a full linac simulator in the browser. Students do the labs on the simulator, so a program can teach machine work without competing for time on a clinical linac.
Clinical machines are booked and revenue-bearing. Learners arrive already knowing the screens, the sequence and what a healthy machine looks like, so bay time confirms skill instead of building it.
Mis-set a parameter, drive the machine into a fault, work back through the interlocks. On a simulator that is a lesson rather than an incident report — reset and go again.
Every lab can be run as many times as it takes, at any hour, without booking anything or waiting for a service window.
Two product families, one platform.
SIMAC Training products teach the machine — every one of them includes SIMAC Learning and the SIMAC Machine Education Edition. SIMAC Digital Twin products model your machine — sold per machine, per beam model, and all built on SIMAC Machine as the base.
Includes SIMAC Learning + SIMAC Machine or free SIMAC access
Per machine, per beam model · requires SIMAC Machine · buy as a bundle
SIMAC Learning, a student management portal, feedback and grading — plus full SIMAC Machine access at the Graduate and Residency levels (Undergraduate is SIMAC Learning only). Instructors and residents get a year of access; graduate students get four months.
Clinical machine time. Teaching stops competing with treatment for the vault. A whole class gets hands on a linac — Varian and Elekta — and the hours you do spend on the real machine go to model-specific setup instead of fundamentals.
What people say after taking it.
Every institution that has subscribed to our platform has renewed after the first year — a 100% renewal rate!
"SIMAC provides a unique environment where our students can gain familiarity with how medical linear accelerators work. SIMAC has played an important role in the education of our graduate students for a number of years now."
"A computer simulation tool is long overdue, and it overcomes the above limitations with self-paced learning available any time anywhere. SIMAC is a welcome addition to training programs in clinical physics and biomedical engineering."
"We incorporate the SIMAC labs module into our program, finding the questions and quizzes useful. We utilize Simac features to let the students quantify PDD variations."