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Akane Naka, Project Manager | May 22, 2007
The department is equipped
with 13 gamma cameras
(10 SPECT)
Nuclear Medicine Residency Program
The Nuclear Medicine Residency at William Beaumont Hospital is designed to prepare the trainee for the American Board of Nuclear Medicine Certification Examination and subsequent subspecialty practice in either the academic or private practice setting. Prior to entering this two-year program, completion of one year of preparatory postgraduate training in a clinical specialty (for example, transitional year, internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, etc.) is required.
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Curriculum
The majority of training will be spent in the imaging clinic, including PET and PET/CT. One week rotations are provided in the following areas: Radiopharmacy, computer/data processing, cardiac stress testing, radiation safety/physics, instrumentation and quality assurance/management. A four-week rotation in Diagnostic Radiology is also provided. Beginning July 2007, a three or four month rotation in Diagnostic Radiology, a one month rotation in Radiation Oncology and a one month rotation in Medical Oncology will be added.
Didactics
Didactic instruction consists of weekly lectures by faculty on basic and clinical science of nuclear medicine, daily teaching sessions with staff physicians, a physics course, a computer lecture mini-series and a radiation biology course. Weekly and monthly conferences include journal club, interesting case conference and PET case conference.
Program Faculty
The faculty consists of seven full-time ABNM certified physicians, a PhD radiochemist, two radiopharmacists, a medical physicist and a data-processing specialist.
Goals and Objectives
The goal of the Nuclear Medicine residency is to provide comprehensive education and training in nuclear medicine, including the handling of radioactive materials and performance of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine procedures.
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Nuclear Medicine Residency
About Beaumont
Beaumont has grown from a single 238-bed hospital - opened in 1955 to serve a small community in Royal Oak, Michigan - into a two-hospital regional medical center. They are Oakland County's second largest employer with more than 12,200 full-time employees.
This information is reposted with thanks to William Beaumont Hospital.
