info on nuclear medicine

[Poesie Noire]

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ive read and received various posts about nuclear medicine being a sound alternative to rads. yet, i cant understand how. its my impression that nuclear medicine is twice to thrice as difficult to obtain than a rads residency, and if someone did get into such a program...than its pretty sure that they would have qualified for a rads residency somewhere. so, is this true and to what benefit can obtaining a nuclear medicine residency help in landing a rads residency down the line? is this kind of route common throughut the past years or just talk among discussion boards?

 

[Ctrhu]

NM residency is a lot easier to get than Radiology.

 

[Jim Picotte]

Yeah nuclear medicine is much easier to obtain than a rads resident. As a nucs person, you're certified to read nuclear studies. As radiology, you can read all the CT, MRI, etc AND nuclear studies. So which person would you rather hire. Not to say that there isn't something to be said about being an absolute expert in a certain field and in large institutions, you can get jobs in nuclear med.

 

[salamander]

I've also heard that Nuclear Medicine is easier to get into than Diag Rads. But does it matter? If there's such a shortage of Rads doctors, maybe Nuclear Medicine docs have great prospects for meeting that need for image readers. Just wondering, if thats the case. It would seem to follow, but I haven't heard evidence either way.

 

[Poesie Noire]

thanks for all the replies. i was wondering why the existence and practice of two separate professional fields like rads and nm if radiologists are certified to read nuclear studies anyway? was nm primarily launched to fuel the research on isotope studies and its applications or was there another prominent reason for it in the clinical field as much as rads? also, can anyone provide any links or websites for the various nm residencies besides fredia? it would be nice to find a link analogous to scutwork.com in terms of weekly feedback but i unfortunately could not find any major info on nm through scutwork. im still looking through auntminnie.com as well. thanks

 

[Fluorinator]

Try http://www.snm.org

 

[Docxter]

Radiologists can do everything that pure nucs guys do except administering "therapeutic" pharmaceuticals. For that, you either need to do a nuclear medicine residency or a nuclear radiology fellowship.

 

[Fluorinator]

Just curious🙂Does anyone know how the job market is for someone who has completed a two year NM residency(but no diagnostic radiology) and becomes board certified?

 

[Santiago]

Just curious🙂Does anyone know how the job market is for someone who has completed a two year NM residency(but no diagnostic radiology) and becomes board certified?

Mainly academic jobs.Not many openings in private set up's.