Nuclear Medicine News

Memorizing board certification test questions and relaying them to other doctors soon to take the test themselves has become common practice among radiology doctors seeking to become board certified.

Educators, employers and students are joining togetherA to celebrate National Nuclear Science Week January 23 - 27, focusing on the many ways nature's most fundamental component - the atom - contributes to the service and progress of our communities and world.

Cristen Bolan, Editor, Applied Radiology; Roundtable participants: George M. Ebert, MD,PhD; Johnsey Leef, MD; and James K. O'Donnell, MD Summary: The campaign to lower radiation dose across imaging procedures is not limited to radiology, but is gaining momentum in the field of nuclear medicine.

For years, doctors around the country taking an exam to become board certified in radiology have cheated by memorizing test questions, creating sophisticated banks of what are known as "recalls," a CNN investigation has found.

The number of people working part-time involuntarily because they could not find full-time work fell in December to the lowest level since January 2009, and "fell by 1.17 million in the past three months, the biggest decline over a similar period since early 1994, figures from the Labor Department show." That's a hopeful sign for the families ... (more)