14. Provide coverage for conscious sedation and iodinated contrast administration (for PET CT and cardiac CTA).

At all times and for each rotation a nuclear medicine faculty is available for help and identified on the monthly nuclear medicine schedule.

2. Call: NMPITs are on call for nuclear medicine on a pager, one week at a time 24 hours/day, every 3 - 6 weeks. A faculty member shares call with the NMPIT and is available as deemed necessary and to assist with interpretation.
3. Teaching Conferences:

1. Annually:

a. Physics and Instrumentation lecture series. (See DRR Handbook)
b. In vitro lecture series
c. Clinical lecture series
d. Nuclear Medicine student technologist lectures

2. VAMC Nuclear Medicine clinical conferences (weekly Monday 8:30 a.m.)
3. VUMC Radiology and Nuclear Medicine clinical conferences (daily at noon) (see DRR Handbook)
4. PET clinical conference (weekly Thursday 8:00 a.m.)
5. Cardiac clinical conference (daily 2:00 p.m.)
6. Radiology Grand Rounds (monthly at noon)
7. Cardiac catheterization/nuclear medicine /CCTA correlation conference (weekly Wednesday 7:00 a.m.)
8. Technologist In-service teaching conference (monthly TBA)
9. Hepatobiliary Multidisciplinary Conference, weekly.
10. Epilepsy Multispecialty Conference, monthly
11. Endocrine clinical conference, Tuesday 8:00 a.m. as appropriate
12. Tumor boards as appropriate
13. Nuclear Medicine Journal Club (monthly Friday 8:00 a.m.)
14. Nuclear Cardiology Journal Club (monthly Friday 8:00 a.m.)
15. Clinical Nuclear Medicine Interesting Cases Conference (monthly Friday 8:00 a.m.)
16. Institute for Imaging Science research conference, weekly at 1pm

Miscellaneous

All NMPITs have 15 working days of vacation each year.

Attendance at a scientific meeting is paid by the department if the NMPIT is presenting a poster or abstract at that meeting.

NMPITs have a generous travel/book fund.

More informations:
Nuclear Medicine Residency Program

This article is reposted with thanks to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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