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.

Research

Resident physicians are required to participate in departmental research. The current areas of interest include

• Nuclear Oncology, evaluating and predicting tumor response
• Improving the detection of myocardial viability by interventional gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging
• Sentinel Node Localization in breast cancer
• Infection and tumor localization in AIDS patients
• Neurology with special interest in traumatic brain injury