Nuclear Medicine Program Directors: Mid Winter Meeting

1. Nuclear Medicine Program Directors: Mid Winter Meeting January 29, 2010 11:00 am Albuquerque, NM

2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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

5. Revision Highlights Definition of Nuclear Medicine Length of the program Program Director Faculty members Resources Resident eligibility Curriculum

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Resources • Must have a dedicated program co-ordinator • Must have a dedicated computer with internet access for resident (educational use)

10. Procedures • No institutional data – deleted • Must maintain resident case logs • identified resident experience • Milestone Project for future benchmarks

11. 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

12. 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

13. Curriculum • Minimum of 25 pediatric procedures/yr • Radiopharmacy requirement • Participate in imaging/non-imaging procedures, radiation safety & surveys

14. Therapy • Radiolabeled antibody therapy requirement changed to 3 parenteral therapies as in 10 CFR 35.390

15. 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

16. 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

17. ABNM Exam • Program must have a 50% pass rate on first time-takers in the last 5 yrs

18. Call • Residents must take call

20. 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)

21. SNM Membership Committee Report David Shelton, MD

22. New NMPD Chair Update Bennett Greenspan, MD

23. 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

24. NRMP New Match Rules Daniel Lee, MD

25. NM Resident Organizations Newsletters Erin Grady, MD

26. 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

27. Other business?