Nuclear Medicine: Science & Practice

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MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert

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Part Time, Full Time

| Admissions status: Open
PURPOSE
This programme develops skills for the provision of safe, high-quality nuclear medicine services by offering nuclear medicine training with a strong scientific and academic framework in an approved structured service environment.

DESCRIPTION
This programme, taught collaboratively by five University of London medical schools, draws on professional expertise from many disciplines. Lectures cover clinical practice, radiopharmaceutical, scientific and regulatory issues in nuclear medicine, and also diagnostic nuclear oncology and radionuclide therapy. Practical studies include clinical observations, audit, physics and radiopharmacy experiments and original research.

KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Professor Valerie Lewington
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 195/ECTS 97.5
Duration
MSc and PG Dip: one year FT, two years PT, October to September; PG Cert: seven months FT; 19 months PT: October to May.
Location
Based at St Thomas’ and Guy’s campuses, some components may take place off-campus.
Student destinations
Students continue to work in a range of nuclear medicine services.
Year of entry 2013
Offered by
St Thomas' Campus