Transcript Nuclear Medicine Program Directors: Mid Winter Meeting

Nuclear Medicine Program
Directors: Mid Winter Meeting
January 29, 2010
11:00 am
Albuquerque, NM
Agenda
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Call to order.
Approval of meeting minutes: SNM Annual
06/14/09
Old Business:
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Revision of NM Program Requirements Update &
highlight major changes
RRC member update: new chair, vice-chair,
resident
SNM Membership committee report: resident
recruitment (D Shelton, MD)
NMPD, new chair update (B Greenspan, MD)
NM RRC: PR Major Revision
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began 05/09
subcommittee 07/09
public comment: 45 days (09/09)
response to comments 11/09
mediation on CT requirements with
Radiology RRC 02/10
PR Major Revision
Program requirements revision approval
process:
– Requirements Development Committee
– Committee on Requirements
– ACGME Board of Directors
Target date for implementation
July 1, 2011
Revision Highlights
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Definition of Nuclear Medicine
Length of the program
Program Director
Faculty members
Resources
Resident eligibility
Curriculum
Length of program
• 36 months
• Residents can enter the program at
different levels depending on assessment
of their prior training
• Training levels include:
– NM1, NM2, NM3
Program Director
• Must have the equivalent of a
minimum of ½ day/wk of protected
administrative time
• Be a faculty member for 1 yr prior to
appt as PD
• Responsible for resident competency
outcomes on completing NM1 & NM2
Faculty
• Must have 1 other FTE other than PD
• Ratio resident:faculty of 2:1 for > 2
residents
• Must have academic or medical staff
appt
Resources
• Must have a dedicated program coordinator
• Must have a dedicated computer with
internet access for resident
(educational use)
Procedures
• No institutional data – deleted
• Must maintain resident case logs
– identified resident experience
– Milestone Project for future
benchmarks
Resident Eligibility
• Only prior GME ACGME, RCPSC or
AOA training will be accepted
• No “or equivalent”
• Preliminary year must include at least
9 months of patient care
Curriculum
• Molecular imaging general
component
• Minimum of 6 months CT – 4 on a
dedicated CT service (being mediated
next week with Radiology RC)
• Resident Learning Portfolio
Curriculum
• Minimum of 25 pediatric
procedures/yr
• Radiopharmacy requirement
• Participate in imaging/non-imaging
procedures, radiation safety &
surveys
Therapy
• Radiolabeled antibody therapy
requirement changed to 3 parenteral
therapies as in 10 CFR 35.390
Rotation Limits
• Elective and Research
- NM1 or 36 month prog: 3 months
- NM2 or 24 month prog: 2 months
- NM3 or 12 month prog: 1 month
Scholarly Activity
• Resident must participate
• Resident must present or publish
scholarly activity
• Presentation: departmental/local,
state, regional, national, international
• PD must document evaluation of
scholarly activity
ABNM Exam
• Program must have a 50% pass rate
on first time-takers in the last 5 yrs
Call
• Residents must take call
RRC Member Update (07/10)
• Chair: Christopher Palestro, MD
(SNM)
• Vice-Chair: Leonie Gordon, MD
(AMA)
• Lorraine Fig, MD (SNM)
• Resident: Erin Grady, MD (Loyola)
SNM Membership Committee
Report
David Shelton, MD
New NMPD Chair Update
Bennett Greenspan, MD
Agenda
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New Business:
– NRMP new match rules (D Lee, MD)
– NM Resident organization newsletters:
ACNM, YPC (E Grady, MD)
– SNM Annual Meeting (Salt Lake City, Utah):
“The ACGME Website: What You Need to
Know and How to Get There”
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Other
Adjourn
NRMP New Match Rules
Daniel Lee, MD
NM Resident Organizations
Newsletters
Erin Grady, MD
2010 SNM Annual Meeting
• Salt Lake City, Utah 06/05 – 06/09/10
• Tom Miller Lecture: 06/06/10 4:30 PM
– ACGME Session: “The ACGME Website:
What You Need to Know and How to Get
There”
• D Metter MD – Chair, NM RC
• Missy Fleming PhD – Executive Director, NM RC
Other business?