Clincal physicist/research career and Imaging Jobs (Canada)

Clincal physicist/research career and Imaging Jobs (Canada)

Hello,

I'm considering doing a PhD in medical physics, and I have a few
questions:

I would like to become a clinical medical physicist who devides his
time between clinical duties and research. I think it would be a nice
mix, rather than simply focusing on one, and getting bored with it.
I'm also attracted by the salary/stability of a clinical medical
physicist.

I was wondering how is the time divided between clinical duties and
resreahc for such a position? Does it vary widely, or is there some
tpyical division (at a big hospital in Canada).

My grad degree was in engineering physics, where i focused on applied
magnetics. I now work for a non-destructive testing company doing
this, and i took a grad course which was a medical physics survey
where i did a presentation on MRI artifacts. Therefore I would
probably like to do research/work with diagnostic imaging and MRI in
particular. However when I look at the medical physics curiculums in
clinical med phys programs, they all seem to focus on radiation
theraphy, with minimal imaging courses. Most of the jobs seem to be
focused on radiaiton therapy also. Why is this so, I imagine imaging
is done just as often as radiaiton therapy (if not more so), so I
guess fewer people are just needed for it?

Additionally if I were to go into radiation theraphy what would the
clinical duties be like, from what I've read it sounds like a lot of
calibration work -- doesn't this get a bit dull after a while?

All these questions apply to the situation in Canada, and the work
questions are regarding working in a large hospital.

Thanks.