nuclear medicine program directors: mid winter meeting
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Nuclear Medicine Program Directors: Mid Winter Meeting. January 29, 2010 11:00 am Albuquerque, NM. Agenda. Call to order. Approval of meeting minutes: SNM Annual 06/14/09 Old Business: Revision of NM Program Requirements Update & highlight major changes - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Nuclear Medicine Program Directors: Mid Winter Meeting
January 29, 2010
11:00 am
Albuquerque, NM
Agenda
• Call to order.• Approval of meeting minutes: SNM Annual
06/14/09• Old Business:
– 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
– 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
• 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 co-ordinator
• 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
• 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”
• 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?