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Report of Survey on Teaching of Nuclear Medicine

ABSTRACT

A report on the undergraduate teaching of nuclear medicine has been presented. The information was extracted from 71 questionnaires returned, out of 106 sent to North American medical schools.

Undergraduate teaching is given in 64 schools; 5 schools report no teaching; two returns were unclear in meaning.

As to hours devoted to the subject, 52 schools show variation between 2 and 64. Eight schools did not indicate hours; 11 report that intermingling of courses in the departments made a statement of exact hours difficult. About half the schools provide 8 to 15 hours.

The instruction is given by radiologists either alone or in cooperation with other departments, in 48 schools. Internal medicine is mentioned in 24 schools; biochemistry and physiology in 14. Pharmacology and pathology are occasionally listed and a few schools show special sections for nuclear medicine. There is much departmental overlap in the teaching. Informal courses are far more common than formal ones.

The majority of medical schools, as revealed in the questionnaires, feel that present undergraduate courses are adequate. A few plan to increase the instruction. Many postgraduate courses are extensive and it is for the postgraduate student that the schools feel the technical instruction should be designed.