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I am wondering how other fellowships offer physics to sit for the nuclear boards? Anyone have any experience with online physics courses fulfilling the 80 hours requirement? Thanks

 

[BlackNDecker]

I am wondering how other fellowships offer physics to sit for the nuclear boards? Anyone have any experience with online physics courses fulfilling the 80 hours requirement? Thanks

I think you are confusing Nuclear Medicine fellowship with being certified to read nuclear cardiac scans (i.e. Sestimibis, etc).

TBH, the physics are largely irrelevant to interpretation...unless you ask a Radiologist opinion🙄

 

[EPADHA]

I think you are confusing Nuclear Medicine fellowship with being certified to read nuclear cardiac scans (i.e. Sestimibis, etc).

TBH, the physics are largely irrelevant to interpretation...unless you ask a Radiologist opinion🙄

Actually to be boarded to read nuclear cardiac scans you need to complete certain number of hours of instruction in nuclear physics. In my fellowship we have a physics lecture every 2 weeks or so (rolling curriculum which covers all topics in 2 years). Dont know much about commercially offered courses.

 

[dragonfly99]

You can pay $1500 and take an online course at nuclearcardiologyonline or something like that. You still have to have cooperation from your program to get some of the hands-on training like I think injecting and/or preparing the isotopes that are given to patients. You still have to have someone training you to read the scans, but the online course is accepted as the 80 hrs of training by the board that certifies nuclear cardiologists to take the required certification exam. If your program doesn't offer nuclear cardiology course work, it's basically the only way you can ever make yourself "certifiable" in nuclear cardiology.