The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and the American
Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) decided in 2012 to establish a joint task force …

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the Society of Nuclear
Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) recognized the need for a review of the current …

In the October issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, the authors of the “Hot Topics”
paper,“Nuclear Medicine Training: What Now?” suggested a path forward for training in …

Although the multidisciplinary nature of nuclear medicine (NM) and clinical molecular
imaging is a key strength of the specialty, the breadth of disciplines involved in the practice …

There is a clear need for established standards for medical physics residency training. The
complexity of techniques in imaging, nuclear medicine, and radiation oncology continues to …

Since the official inception of nuclear medicine in 1971, the practice of nuclear medicine and
its training programs have undergone major revisions. Numerous procedures that were …

The issue of what may constitute optimal training pathways for nuclear medicine and
molecular imaging has been of major interest and discussion over the past decade (1–7) …

The task force met for the first time in January during the SNMMI Mid-Winter Meeting in
Orlando, FL, and started with the premise that nuclear medicine is an independent specialty …

TO THE EDITOR: In preparing this letter on the proposal of the American Board of Nuclear
Medicine (ABNM)–American Board of Radiology (ABR) task force (1), my most difficult …

CONCLUSION It is with some degree of trepidation that we submit these recommendations,
as the ABR–ABNM task force proposal has not been adopted at the writing of this letter. The …