NUMT 1020

This course will provide students with their first introduction to nuclear medicine clinical procedures. Students will gain the knowledge and clinical skills required to perform skeletal, genitourinary, and tumour/inflammatory procedures in nuclear medicine. With a patient-centered focus, students will learn image critique and interpretation, radiopharmaceutical distribution, appropriateness, protocol review, data analysis, relevant pathologies, the effects of pharmacologic agents, and procedural troubleshooting. In addition, students will be introduced to the clinical environment which will enable them to observe, develop, and practice these skills.