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?