Undergraduate teaching of nuclear medicine: a comparison between Central & Eastern Europe and European Union countries

Piotr Lass; Justyna Scheffler; Tomasz Bandurski

Vol 6, No 1 (2003)

Education

Submitted: 2012-01-23

Published online: 2003-01-03

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Undergraduate teaching of nuclear medicine: a comparison between Central & Eastern Europe and European Union countries

Piotr Lass, Justyna Scheffler, Tomasz Bandurski

Nucl. Med. Rev 2003;6(1):49-53.

Vol 6, No 1 (2003)

Education

Submitted: 2012-01-23

Published online: 2003-01-03

Abstract

This paper overviews the curricula of nuclear medicine (NM) undergraduate training in 34 Central & Eastern European (CEE) and 37 European Union (EU) medical faculties. The data show enormous variation in the number of hours devoted to nuclear medicine, varying between 1–2 to 40 hours and highly differentiated concepts/ideas of nuclear medicine training in particular countries. In most EU countries this teaching is integrated with that of radiology or clinical modules, also with training in clinical physiology. In many CEE countries teaching and testing of NM are independent, although integration with other teaching modules is frequent. The paper discusses the differences in particular approaches to nuclear medicine teaching.