Location: Online
Start Term: Summer
Designed for students located in specific regions of New England and the Northeast who hold an associate’s degree in medical imaging or a bachelor’s degree in any field, this program builds on your previous college studies, teaching you how to safely and compassionately administer radioactive drugs, or radiopharmaceuticals, to patients. This program offers clinical opportunities in select cities throughout New England, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Details about the locations are noted below.
As a student in this program, you'll learn how to obtain rapid-succession images of where radiopharmaceuticals concentrate in the body, giving your medical team insight essential to diagnosing patients. You'll discover the functions of the many organs and tissues found in the human anatomy. And you’ll learn how to treat a variety of medical conditions using targeted radiation.
Over the course of 14 consecutive months, you'll follow a synchronous distance/online class schedule, which means that you will log and call in during specific class times, offering you the flexibility of an online education coupled with the community-building experience associated with classroom learning. You'll participate in clinical experiences at sites predetermined by your specific location, where you'll work alongside industry experts and gain firsthand knowledge of what it's like to be a nuclear medicine technologist. And you'll graduate ready to positively impact patients' lives and sit for the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board, as well as the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists.