The nuclear medicine residency program at St. Vincent�s Hospital Manhattan is a two-year training program, which will be three years starting July 2006, that utilizes didactic lectures, laboratory exercises, progressive clinical patient care responsibilities and participation in multi-disciplinary seminars and research programs to train physicians to be competent in all aspects of the nuclear medicine specialty.

One to two resident physicians are accepted each year, for a maximum of three residents in the program at any one time. Candidates' prerequisite training should be one year in internal medicine, radiology, or pathology, as required by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. Candidates with previous experience in nuclear medicine can seek approval of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine for exemption from the preliminary year requirement.  Candidates with a non-radiologic background receive supplementary teaching in radiation protection and physics early in their training to prepare them for working in a nuclear medicine laboratory environment. The caseload for the nuclear medicine section is in excess of 10,000 in vivo imaging procedures per year.

The nuclear medicine service is organized as a section of the department of radiology. The nuclear medicine staff consists of two members -- both are board certified in nuclear medicine, one has a joint certification in radiation oncology and the other is also board certified in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology.  There is room for a third nuclear medicine staff member in the future.  A full-time Ph.D. physicist and Ph.D. radiopharmacist are members of the staff of the nuclear medicine service. They are also supported by one Ph. D. Physicist who is a radiation officer and the radiation physicist for diagnostic radiology.  In addition the section has it's own manner who is a certified nuclear medicine technologist with many years of technical and administrative experience.