Course Descriptions 2022-2023 School Year NUCLEAR MEDICINE TECHNOLOGY NMT1111  Patient Care Methods and Ethics  3.0   O Basics of patient care; patient and interpersonal communications and psychology; medical and legal ethics; hospital and departmental organization; emergency medical situations; and record keeping.... Full Description NMT1430  Radiation Biology  3.0   O Nuclear medicine radiation biology including dosimetry for diagnostic and therapeutic radionuclide procedures.... Full Description NMT1713  Nuclear Medicine Methodology 1  4.0   O This course presents an in-depth aspects and considerations of standard Nuclear Medicine diagnostic procedures. Each methodology course includes an overview of anatomy and physiology pertinent to Nuclear Medicine clinical studies. The student's knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and chemistry is expected from the prerequisite courses. This prior information along with some common pathology/pathophysiology will be emphasized and integrated with required technological principles. Course includes discussion and reviews of body landmarks, system's and/or organ's structure, function, components, body relationships; values and interrelationships of each one to another. Introduces basic study of significant pathology, including various terminolo Full Description NMT1723  Nuclear Medicine Methodology 2  4.0   O Studies covered: planar and SPECT cardiology, quantitative renal studies, central nervous system and endocrine examinations. Includes EKG lab.... Full Description NMT1733  Nuclear Medicine Methodology 3  3.0   O Introduction to immunology and hematology; fundamentals of non-imaging/in vitro and radioassay studies; and radionuclide therapy procedures.... Full Description NMT1804  Nuclear Medicine Clinical Education 1  1.0   O Lab experience in the introductory aspects of Nuclear Medicine Technology (NMT) with clinical orientation to the NMT department, camera, non-imaging equipment, hospital and procedures. Actual clinical education within a NMT facility will take place starting in October. Expectations concerning the student will increase most especially in the areas of Ethics and Professional Behavior, Critical Thinking, Clinical Knowledge and Clinical Psychomotor Skills (patient care/increasing independence of scan performance). Clinical skills will be measured via the Clinical Competency Procedure (as explained in the student's clinical notebook). Affective, cognitive and psychomotor skills will be evaluated, not only in the clinical competency arena by the. Full Description NMT2061  Nuclear Medicine Seminar  3.0   O Comprehensive correlated theory testing and review, complementary to national and state certification/licensure and professional competency.... Full Description NMT2743  Nuclear Medicine Methodology 4  4.0   O Special nuclear medicine studies; inflammatory, oncologic, monoclonal antibodies, and miscellaneous studies.... Full Description NMT1534C  Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation 1  4.0   O Course presents web-enhanced instruction in the related concepts of applied nuclear medicine sciences in atomic/radiation physics and non-imaging instrumentation. It introduces basics/essentials of electronics, statistics and computer systems/hardware information. Course integrates these concepts and information with required technological principles of non -imaging quality assurance/control program and tests. Student's knowledge of science and applied technical math is expected. This should enable the student to learn/understand both the concepts and information described; also perform specific laboratory exercises required.... Full Description NMT2854  Nuclear Medicine Clinical Education 6  2.0   O This course begins the sixth and final semester in the Clinical Education Course sequence. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the classroom, lab and clinical experience to continue to grow didactically, clinically, and professionally while developing technical skills as students work toward completing the JRC, ARRT, and NMTCB competency testing in preparation to enter the health care profession. Emphasis on advanced NMT topics, directed research, and career preparation. Expectations concerning the student performance are high: most especially in the areas of Ethics and Professional Behavior, Critical Thinking, Clinical knowledge and Clinical Psychomotor Skills (patient care/increasing independence of scan performance) Full Description NMT1310C  NMT Radiation Safety, Health Physics, and Radiopharmacy  3.0   O Radiation safety and protection; health physics aspects; radionuclide chemistry essentials; radiopharmaceutical preparations; rules and regulations. Includes radio-pharmacy lab.... Full Description NMT1824  Nuclear Medicine Clinical Education 3  1.0   O Continuation of Nuclear Medicine Clinical Education 2. Orientation to the nuclear clinical area with a progression of experiences from the elementary aspects to moderately refined procedures.... Full Description NMT1535C  Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation 2  3.0   O Nuclear medicine imaging systems; scintillation cameras, planar, SPECT, and PET fundamentals; introduction to nuclear medicine computer software applications; nuclear medicine quality assurance and control tests, including laboratory exercises.... Full Description NMT1814  Nuclear Medicine Clinical Education 2  2.0   O Orientation to the nuclear clinical area with a progression of experiences from the elementary aspects to moderately refined procedures.... Full Description NMT1834  Nuclear Medicine Clinical Education 4  2.0   O Continuation of Nuclear Medicine Clinical Education 3. Orientation to the nuclear clinical area with a progression of experiences from the elementary aspects to moderately refined procedures.... Full Description NMT2844  Nuclear Medicine Clinical Education 5  2.0   O Supervised clinical education in all facets of fundamental NMT procedures and image critique of cases submitted for interpretation by the student. Expectations concerning the student will increase most especially in the areas of Ethics and Professional Behavior, Critical Thinking, Clinical Knowledge and Clinical Psychomotor Skills (patient care/increasing independence of scan performance). Clinical skills will be measured via the Clinical Competency Procedure (as explained in the student's clinical notebook). Affective, cognitive and psychomotor skills will be evaluated, not only in the clinical competency arena by the Clinical Faculty; but also, by Technologist Evaluation.... Full Description