Location: Columbia, South Carolina

Duration: 4 weeks

Course Offered: By approval only of the Course Director

Number of Students: 1 per rotation

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of RADI D620

Students Report To: Department of Radiology, School of Medicine Campus, Building #101 (basement), 8:00 a.m., on the first day of the rotation

The course will give the student instruction and experience in the clinical use and performance of nuclear medicine procedures.

At the completion of the course, the student will have participated in the performance of all routine nuclear medicine procedures and will have gained some understanding of their clinical usefulness.

The chemical and physiologic principles of the various procedures will have been presented and the students' knowledge of radiation detection and the safe handling of radioactive materials will have been extended.