Hyewon Hyun, MD - Director
BWH - Brigham and Women's Hospital (23)
HMS Principal Clinical Experience (Core Clinical Clerkships) or equivalent
Full time each month except Dec
This elective provides a 4-week opportunity for medical students (with/without core clerkship in radiology completion) for hands-on experience in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Students’ home institution is BWH, but like residents who train in the Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine (JPNM), an ACGME-approved training program, they will spend time at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital based on interest and availability. At each institution, the student will also be paired with an experienced senior diagnostic radiology resident, fellow or JPNM resident; the overall supervision of the student will be by an attending physician. The student will be paired with an experienced nuclear medicine technologist at least once at each site so that he/she can observe the entire process of obtaining nuclear medicine and molecular imaging studies from the technologists’ and patients’ perspectives. After an initial day of observation, the student will play an integral role in the care of patients who present for imaging or therapy to the Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Division. The student will have access to electronic patient records as well as digital image systems. The student will participate in determining patient history and clinical indications for requested imaging studies. He or she will observe and then participate in decision-making process regarding performance of requested studies and their interpretation. The student will be expected to look at one to two cases per day on his or her own and to incorporate what he or she learns by observation into active practice, becoming familiar with the appropriate use of physiologic imaging in the context of anatomic imaging such as CTs.