MABIO4500 Nuclear Medicine Course description

The course deals with nuclear medicine methods for diagnostics and treatment of diseases. Emphasis is placed on knowledge of radiation protection, and the medical areas of application of different types of ionising radiation. The course also focuses on nuclear medicine imaging and detection principles and on how radiopharmaceuticals are produced and prepared in a sterile manner in nuclear medicine units. Discussion and reflection on the ethical challenges associated with work in nuclear medicine units is also an integral part of the course.

Nuclear medicine methods belong to the category molecular imaging, while other methods in this category are covered by the course MABIO4700 Molecular Imaging.

The student must have been admitted to the study programme. The course is also offered as an individual course.

Complexity is a term frequently used to describe relations in a society where formal and institutional boundaries decrease in importance. The complexity of the challenges we face today demands collaborative initiatives across levels of governments and administration, and across different sectors. The need for cooperation between traditional scientific disciplines is now acknowledged as a basic requirement for development of new knowledge.

It is inherent in complexity thinking that different but complementary perspectives are adopted to illuminate and analyze problems requiring solution. Graduates of the master program can work and lead independently of discipline, professional turf, sector or level of administration. The students’ varied background education and work experience shall create and sustain a culture based on respect for different perspectives, the ability to change perspective if and when required, and of looking for optimal solutions by de-focusing differences and re-focusing on compatibility.

Admission to the study program

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• minimum attendance of 80% at seminars and scheduled group work
• minimum attendance of 90 % at the laboratory course
• individual practical test, approx. 2 hours
• individual project assignment about a nuclear medicine topic, up to 6,000 words

Teaching and learning methods include lectures, discussions, individual reports and seminars. Students read selected texts in advance for each day of class, and everyone is expected to participate in class through questions and through joining in discussion.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• 4 individual written assignments, each with maximum 6000 keystrokes.

Individual written examination with invigilation, 4 hours. Exam questions are in English. Students may submit their exams in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

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