The program includes a comprehensive basic science and clinical lecture series encompassing all related aspects of physics, statistics, radiobiology, radiopharmacy, and computer technology. The program also provides didactic exposure to all in vivo and in vitro diagnostic and therapeutic techniques that a nuclear medicine physician would be expected to perform and interpret. The faculty for these didactic lectures consists of lecturers from St. Vincent's Hospital and from other institutions throughout the greater New York area. The residents have access to P.C. educational aids including CD ROMs, Internet and audiovisual facilities.

Resident physicians participate in daily interaction with the cardiology department for both exercise and pharmacological stressing, interviewing patients for various nuclear medicine procedures, daily scan interpretation sessions, weekly thyroid and oncology conferences, biweekly cardiology conferences, lectures, journal clubs, and research project meetings.