nuclear medicine and radiology

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Nuclear medicine is a well-respected field and is nicely procedure-based, as is radiation oncology. Many of the imaging specialties offer similar niceties. My thought is go for the one you want foremost. I have heard of people attempting sequential residencies (doing nuc med first trying to increase their chances in either diagnositc radiology or therapeutic radiology) and the timeframe to be done with their training is literally double if all goes well.
 
I have heard it is a challenge to go from Nucs to Diagnostic. However, if you are successful in matching, your time in Nucs will account for something in Diagnostic Radiology to open up the opportunities for electives and more time to study for the boards.
 
You can get up to one year of credit in radiology if you are a board certified nuc med physician.



BenHoganFan said:
I have heard it is a challenge to go from Nucs to Diagnostic. However, if you are successful in matching, your time in Nucs will account for something in Diagnostic Radiology to open up the opportunities for electives and more time to study for the boards.
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Doing the nucs residency alone does little to make you more competitive for rads. In my experience, the people who managed to make the transition did so based on what they did 'extra' during nucs residency. Either they published like crazy, or they managed to get into joint projects with faculty from the radiology department. The contacts they made during the time in nucs is what got them their radiology slots, not the residency itself.
 
I am somewhat new to this & haven't heard of this approach yet, but is Nuclear Medicine not like any other residency? The way I understand the system is that Medicare pays for ONE (and only one) residency per person. So I would think if a person did a nuclear medicine residency they would then be done with residency & even if they were then accepted to a rads program that residency (3 years left? judging by the previous poster) those years would be unpaid.

Is that correct?
 
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