If you have an interest in the health sciences and computer technology and are looking for a people-oriented career, consider nuclear medicine technology. Nuclear medicine combines chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer technology, and medicine using radioactivity to diagnose and treat disease. Though there are many diagnostic techniques currently available, nuclear medicine uniquely provides information about the structure and function of virtually every major organ system within the body. It is this ability to characterize and quantify physiologic function that separates nuclear medicine from other imaging modalities, such as x-ray. Nuclear medicine procedures are safe, involve little or no patient discomfort, and seldom require the use of anesthesia.
The Program of Nuclear Medicine Technology began in 1970 in the Nuclear Medicine Laboratory at the Milwaukee County Medical Complex. The program is accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Educational Programs in Nuclear Medicine Technology. The Nuclear Medicine Section is a division of the Department of Radiology of Froedtert Hospital & the Medical College of Wisconsin. It is staffed full time by a Director and Associate Physicians, a Doctoral Physicist, a Radiopharmacist, and eight certified Nuclear Medicine Technologists. It is equipped with state-of-the-art imaging and counting equipment.
The objectives of the Nuclear Medicine Technology Program are:
- To orient and train technologists in the utilization of radioactive materials for therapeutic and diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures.
- To establish for the community a reliable source of technologists whose skillful and compassionate work with nuclear medicine patients will be both satisfying to themselves and a credit to the profession.
Our philosophy is that each individual is deserving of respect, empathy and concern.
Accrediting Agencies
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
The Joint Commission