Authorized Status Requirements
NRC specifies that 700 hours of training and experience, including a minimum of 80 hours of classroom are needed. Candidates must also meet the training and experience requirements for medical uses of radioiodine I131 (≤33mCi and >33 mCi) requiring a written directive.
1. The work experience (hot lab) must involve:
(A) Ordering, receiving, and unpacking radioactive materials safely and performing the related radiation surveys
(B) Performing quality control procedures on instruments used to determine the activity of dosages, and performing checks for proper operation of survey meters
(C) Calculating, measuring and safely preparing patient or human research subject dosages
(D) Using administrative controls to prevent a medical event involving the use of unsealed byproduct material;
(E) Using procedures to contain spilled byproduct material safely and using proper decontamination procedures;
(F) Administering dosages of radioactive drugs to patients or human research subjects; and
(G) Eluting generator systems appropriate for preparation of radioactive drugs for imaging and localization studies, measuring and testing the elute for radionuclide purity, and processing the elute with reagent kits to prepare labeled radioactive drugs;
These are achieved during the 40 hours hot lab rotation done in the 1 st Nuclear Medicine rotation as PGY2.
The 80 hours of classroom training will consist of a combination of basic science and clinical lectures.
2. Basic science (40 hours) must include the following areas:
(A) Radiation physics and instrumentation
(B) Radiation protection
(C) Mathematics pertaining to the use and measurement of radioactivity

(D) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use
(E) Radiation biology
These are achieved during 40 hours of basic science lectures as part of the Nuclear
Medicine Basic Science Curriculum (PGY2).
3. The clinical lectures (40 hours) will be counted from the Nuclear Medicine Clinical
Curriculum (PGY2).
The basic science and clinical lectures are mandatory for trainees choosing to obtain
Authorized User status and have to be attended at the Lucas Learning Center by PGY2 residents.
The 4 months of Nuclear Medicine rotations (1 month in each year PGY2-PGY5) will count toward the 700 hours of training and experience.
Summary of Nuclear Medicine Conference Requirements:
1. Basic science conferences : Residents must attend EVERY basic science lecture in the series at least once during the four-year residency, and obtain the instructor’s signature on their individual sign-in sheets to document their attendance.
2. Clinical Nuclear Medicine conferences : Residents must also attend EVERY clinical nuclear medicine lecture in the series at least once during the four-year residency, and obtain the instructor’s signature on their individual sign-in sheets to document their attendance. Attendance in subsequent years is encouraged, but not mandatory. After a topic has been signed off by the instructor, follow-up clinical lectures do not require a sign-in on the individual log sheets, as they can be tracked in MedHub.