Nuclear Medicine

Components of Training

Core Training

• For each year of training, you must submit a prospective proposal to the JSAC at the commencement of the year, and a Supervisor's Report must be submitted at the end of the year. These documents must be completed before any training can be accredited.
  
• An understanding of normal developmental and maturational physiology and how this may influence the performance or interpretation of a study is an essential part of paediatric nuclear medicine.
  
• While a degree of specialisation of training is inevitable, it is expected that you will cover the breadth of nuclear medicine during the training program. This must include exposure to all aspects of diagnostic paediatric nuclear medicine including SPECT and therapeutic nuclear medicine. Three months training in adult nuclear medicine at an accredited site is essential and this can be done at any stage during training, including the elective year.
  
• During the training program, you are expected to gain experience in more than one adult nuclear medicine department/institution. In general, this will require one year in each of the two institutions, although periods that are shorter but are continuous and of more than three months' duration in a second institution will be considered.
  
• You are encouraged to spend part of Advanced Training in an overseas institution. However you are advised to consider this option after having completed at least one core year of your advanced training in Australia. There are a number of institutions with which members have close ties and at which it is possible to for fellowships and residencies to be arranged.

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Procedural Skills
You are expected to gain proficiency in all aspects of paediatric nuclear medicine including basic skills such as venous cannulation, urethral catheterisation and the general care of the sedated and/or sick child.

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Elective Training
If you are undertaking Advanced Training in nuclear medicine after the completion of the FRACP Examination, you may undertake one of the three years in an associated medical specialty. Alternatively, you may undertake this in further clinical nuclear medicine training. Elective training in research is strongly encouraged.

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