The Nuclear Medicine elective allows the student to interact with the clinical and research activities of Nuclear Medicine as it relates to diagnostic imaging and therapy with this modality. Students are trained under the direct supervision of our faculty members with guidance from our residents. Learning Techniques include: daily work, teaching file, and conference attendance. Reading sessions start at 8:30 a.m. daily. While patients are injected for studies during the morning, the students observe the technical aspect of this procedure prior to interpreting the studies with residents and attendings. An example of such studies is the myocardial perfusion studies - patients are injected early in the morning, residents and students monitor the stress and rest imaging acquisitions. Students will also observe many other nuclear medicine procedures, such as bone scans, renal scintigraphy, thyroid scintigraphy and PET/CT scans.
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