Do residents receive six months of rotation in Nuclear Radiology?
As noted elsewhere, nuclear medicine is a separate department; however, working relations between the departments are excellent and the two chairmen meet regularly. The radiology department administrator also serves as the administrator for the department of nuclear medicine. Residents rotate through nuclear medicine for five months, but also obtain the equivalent of an additional month of training by participating in nuclear medicine on-call over the four-year training period and attending conferences, lectures and nuclear medicine grand rounds. The residents spend at least six hours per month in these activities over the four years of the residency, which provides at a minimum the equivalent of an additional one-month clinical rotation. The American Board of Radiology has recently approved (in accordance with the new requirements of the NRC) a reduction in the number of hours of training in nuclear medicine from 1100 to 700 hours for candidates taking the oral exam in June 2005 and i
